As suburbs around Joburg remain dry and the water crisis continues, Rand Water has opened up about the numerous challenges hampering the supply of clean water to households.
“The fact is that there is enough water. There is more than enough for everybody. The big concern is how it is managed. Ideally the municipalities should be keeping their reservoirs at over 60% full for cases like this when there is a spike in demand. But that’s not what we are seeing.
A big reason for water pumps not functioning constantly to keep reservoirs full was power interruptions caused by load-shedding, breakdowns and “poor quality power supply” from Eskom. “It’s a multiplicity of issues which we are trying to respond to quickly, in line with a growth strategy that has us looking at alternative sources such as hydroelectric power and solar to mitigate these interruptions. But we are nowhere close to being out of Eskom’s grip yet,” he said.
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