Johannesburg to Face Widespread Water Shutdown for Infrastructure Maintenance

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Johannesburg to Face Widespread Water Shutdown for Infrastructure Maintenance
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Johannesburg residents in 50 suburbs will experience a complete water shutdown on Monday due to critical infrastructure maintenance at the Hector Norris Pump Station. The maintenance involves a dummy run to verify isolation capabilities, essential for installing new isolation valves. The outage affects major areas like Johannesburg CBD, Houghton, Hyde Park, and Saxonwold, impacting all streets within the affected zone. Johannesburg Water will deploy water tankers to mitigate the impact and urges residents to store water for essential use.

Johannesburg residents across 50 suburbs will experience a complete water shutdown on Monday as Johannesburg Water conducts critical infrastructure maintenance at the Hector Norris Pump Station .The outage affects major areas including Johannesburg CBD, Houghton, Hyde Park, and Saxonwold.

This widespread outage will impact all streets in the affected areas, stretching from Newtown and Fordsburg in the west to Linksfield and Glenhazel in the east, and from Parktown in the north to Rosettenville and La Rochelle in the south.City Power crisis: Over 2 900 calls logged across Johannesburg as multiple areas face outagesThe utility announced that all affected areas will have no water during the hours of maintenance.

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