Failing infrastructure and increased demand means Gauteng residents may soon have to rely on treated sewage to quench their thirst
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.The lack of attention to maintenance and upgrades in the water sector, coupled with demographic shifts, has led to waterThe long-term prognosis is not good, unless society can be mobilised towards fully reusing water and embracing the reuse of fully-treated sewage, according to water expert.
These characteristics fit all the criteria for water insecurity, such as an excess of demand over supply. “In the older suburbs, the initial cause of these outages was primarily due to leaking water supply pipes, which were patched … During the patching process, water to the entire suburb would be shut off.”
The department will not increase the quota for Gauteng because they are the stewards or the custodians of the resource at a national level. “They are concerned with meeting both current and future needs for the entire country, not just the immediate needs of Gauteng, or Joburg. These statistics indicate that we haveThis extra usage and loss overloads the system entirely. The rate of drawdown on our potable water reservoirs is greater than the maximum rate of recharge.
He said that although it is possible to live for weeks without electricity, without water, the options rapidly diminish in terms of how long people can be resilient. Johannesburg, in particular, notwithstanding the high rates of water lost from broken infrastructure, still uses too much water per capita —more than any other province. Changes need to be made to ensure long-term sustainability and to improve water security, he said.
“As a global society, we need to reconsider how we value water. Our future requires some truly creative problem-solving. We might need to consider how to bring water from the African tropics such as transfers from the Congo belt or the Zambezi.”
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