Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister David Mahlobo assessed the extent of water challenges in Ekurhuleni and Pretoria on Wednesday after large parts of Gauteng were crippled by water shortages in recent weeks.
JOHANNESBURG - Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister David Mahlobo said Gauteng metros were edging closer to Day Zero due to the volatile water levels in municipal reservoirs.
Mahlobo assessed the extent of water challenges in Ekurhuleni and Pretoria on Wednesday after large parts of Gauteng were crippled by water shortages in recent weeks. Mahlobo said that while some of the constraints were caused by increased demand, and power outages, fractured infrastructure had worsened the province’s water crisis, leaving taps dry in many communities."The problem we have is that municipalities never prepared in terms of infrastructure, in terms of storage and more reservoirs.
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