‘There is no water crisis’: Mchunu calls for calm during Gauteng shutdown - The department of water and sanitation and Rand Water have addressed questions about the inauspicious timing of this week’s shutdown
The Rand Water executives also emphasised that such maintenance undertakings were routine and should be taken pre-emptively, rather than reactively. Usually their effect on the public is unnoticeable, but the larger-than-usually infrastructure work this week precipitated the announcement of the shutdown. Questioned about the inauspicious timing of the announcement, with the country reeling from recent rolling power cuts, Mosai said there could never be perfect timing.
“There’s a period of time when you have to augment; there’s a period of time when you have to maintain; there’s a period of time when you have to service and so on and so forth,” he said. “You plan in advance. We planned this thing 10 years ago; the pipes are underground ― now we have to connect. We have been wanting to do this two years ago, [then] Covid started [and] there was lockdown.
“The beauty about it is we’re not cutting water completely. We are still pumping more than two-thirds of the water we produce. The water will still be flowing and people will still be able to wash their hands. There may be an inconvenience here and there, but we’re happy that we’re making the necessary arrangements,” Mosai added.
Mchunu said the public would likely have been even more enraged had the work been delayed until the December holiday period.for the first three months . Subscribers get access to all our best journalism, subscriber-only newsletters, events and a weekly cryptic crossword.
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