In Drought-Stricken Mandela Bay, Leaking Taps Are Wasting Precious Water... GroundUp_News: SouthAfrica
As Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality battles a lengthy drought and critically low dam levels and urges its residents to use no more than 50 litres per person per day, leaks in informal settlements continue to test its efforts.
Eighteen months ago, GroundUp reported on leaking standpipes in some of the city's 156 informal settlements. The municipality told us back then it was"winning the war against leaks". Between May and November 2020 it had fixed 16,000 leaks, it said.Residents say taps are not fixed properly or the repairs don't last because taps are not maintained.
Siyabonga Stemele, chairperson of the Development Committee in Area 11 informal settlement in ward 45, Kariega, said,"We do not know what language we should speak to get the municipality to fix our broken and leaking taps ... Hundreds of litres of clean water are still running down the streets for over two years now, unattended.
He said,"Since 2019, sewer drains and leaking taps have been fixed on and off, but remain leaking and spewing still. The infrastructure in our area is old and bad. Leaking underground water is causing dozens of newly-installed electricity poles to swim in water and they stand skew."Get the latest in African news delivered straight to your inbox
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