Rand Water to cut flows to Gauteng councils from Friday night to avoid ‘complete systems crash’ - Utility says water restrictions are not going far enough
said it would apply flow-control management at its reservoirs from Friday evening to avoid them running empty and a “complete systems crash”.supply and no longer relies on consumers to reduce consumption”, spokesperson Makenosi Maroo said.
Maroo said since the start of spring, Rand Water’s bulk water provision to municipalities had climbed from an average of 4 300 million litres of water a day to 4 900 million litres. “This is against the backdrop of Rand Water over-abstracting or exceeding its abstraction licence by 400 million cubic metres of water per annum,” Maroo said.Water imposed a water supply reduction of 30% “so that there is still enough water in the reservoirs to mitigate, among others, intermittent supply”.
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