‘This water crisis has put our lives on hold’, say residents forced to queue at standpipes from 1am daily.
Bay, people queue for hours to fill containers from Jojo tanks filled by municipal tankers.
Joseph Tsatsire, municipal director of water distribution, said consumption had been climbing steadily in the metro last week to 263-million litres per day on Friday.Luvuyo Bangazi, spokesperson for the Metro Joint Operations Committee on Drought Mitigation, said, “There is no community that is left to go dry without an intervention.”On Saturday in Chris Hani, KwaNobuhle, people came with wheelbarrows, shopping trolleys and wheelie bins to collect as much water as they could from a Jojo tank.
Twenty-year-old Anathi Gqeshe was busy filling 30 two-litre bottles for his family of seven. “This is exhausting,” he said. “Since February I have been fetching water like this. Three of my siblings need water to bath and go to school and others to work. I have passed my matric but I don’t have time to look for a job because this water crisis has put our lives on hold.”
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