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Nobody is accusing the City of Johannesburg of hiking up the water bills for houses in relatively well-off areas so that they can afford to manage the ongoing water crisis , but charging a house of three around R100,000 for water they say they don't even use doesn't seem legitimate. The Randburg Sun reports that several households in the Jozi suburb of Randburg are being left with outrageous water bills , some 30 times more than their usual charges.
So, they are using a different meter number, we raised that with them. They still haven’t helped us.” Their frustration is close to boiling over with Malini wondering how it is possible that a family of three people can use that amount of water a month. "No one wants to give us answers. No one can tell you what is going on. No one can explain because, for all we know, the meter number that has been wrong on our account all the time is where they take in the consumption readings from.
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