"This water crisis has put our lives on hold"
Usable water in Nelson Mandela Bay is at 2.3% of dam capacity.
As the water crisis intensifies in Nelson Mandela Bay, people queue for hours to fill containers from Jojo tanks filled by municipal tankers. Joseph Tsatsire, municipal director of water distribution, said consumption had been climbing steadily in the metro last week to 263-million litres per day on Friday.The Impofu Dam, pictured, was at 10.26% on July 11, 2022. Nelson Mandela Bay supply dam levels are at 14.7% of combined capacity, but the accessible water that can be transferred to treatment and reservoirs is currently at 2.3% of dam capacity.
"We are really desperate for water. Most of us here are unemployed and we survive on social grants. When this tank is empty, we buy five-litres of water from the shops for R6 in order to cook. But for my family of four that is not enough." Half a kilometre from the Jojo tank, we found more than 60 people queuing next to a vandalised RDP house to collect water from a broken water pipe. They were from RDP houses located on higher ground. The abandoned RDP house, on lower ground, has water while they do not. People queue there from as early as 4am. They bend and clamp the severed pipe to control the flow.Churchill dam with a capacity of 35.3 million cubic meters was at 17.8% on July 11, 2022.
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