Emfuleni Local Municipality says water will hopefully be restored today.
Emfuleni Local Municipality in the Sedibeng District in Gauteng says water will hopefully be restored today and be safe to drink.
Emfuleni Local Municipality’s Chief Director Madoda Besani says technicians are busy investigating while the water supply will remain shut to all affected areas. Besani says, “As the municipality, you’d know that some of our infrastructure is very old and sometimes the conditions become poor and it breaks and gets dilapidated. So what happens is that because of this you’d find sewerage that’s leaking in various parts and ponds around the water network, and if it’s broken, collapsing the sewer finds its way inside the network.”
“The problem has been fairly contained because of teams sent on the ground and water tankers are supplying water and hopefully today we will announce that water can be consumed,” he adds. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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