Rand Water has finished repairs on its infrastructure, allowing water to flow back into homes in Johannesburg. However, full recovery could take days or even weeks depending on location and water demand. The outage, which lasted almost a week, impacted residents across the city, from Soweto to Krugersdorp.
Water is apparently pumping out at full capacity but there are a number of factors slowing access.After almost a week without water due to widespread outage caused by maintenance of water infrastructure facilities, Rand Water has announced that repairs are complete and water should start flowing back into homes of residents.
“Water supply will not be noticed immediately but will gradually increase as the system builds capacity,” Johannesburg Water explained in a statement issued on Monday evening. Johannesburg has faced a water outage since the weekend where it began a planned 86-hour maintenance window for the Zwartkopjes and Eikenhof pumping stations. The outage has affected residents from Soweto, Roodepoort, Lenasia, parts of Johannesburg Central and even as far as Krugersdorp.at Zwartkopjes and Eikenhof would see water recovery take “several days” before it was fully restored. This was a shorter 58-hour planned maintenance project.
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