Johannesburg Water revealed on Thursday during a tour to its Deep South System that the Orange Farm reservoir alone loses R1.4 billion a year from illicit connections.
JOHANNESBURG - Illegal water connections are responsible for a large portion of the billions of rands lost every year.
Johannesburg Water revealed on Thursday during a tour of its Deep South System that the Orange Farm reservoir alone loses R1.4 billion a year from illicit connections. This reservoir supplies water to a number of areas in the southern part of Johannesburg, including Orange Farm, Stretford and Lakeside.
Joburg Water's Region G operations manager, Kagiso Manganye, said that tens of thousands of households were connecting their water illegally. "There’s a number of informal settlements that we have identified in Region G that are connected illegally into our system. Each and every informal settlement has got a certain number of households but those that we have identified with illegal connections, I'm talking about the number of households, consists of 40,000."The utility is holding a media tour to its Deep South System which consists of seven reservoirs including the Orange Farm reservoir.
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