Water restrictions remain in place: Rand Water eNCA
The Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has acknowledged water scarcity in some areas but said there is no need to panic.Rand Water executive manager of operations Eddie Singo said:"This is what was anticipated both as Rand Water and the Department of Water and Sanitation.
"For over a month we've been communicating that the heatwave is on us. We have been communicating, we're not going to get rain, we're not getting rain. And rain possibly will be coming through towards the end of November."The call we had made and the restrictions we had initiated over time throughout our network has really brought some significant improvement. So in the last week we saw about a 6.
Singo echoed the minister and said there is not a crisis at present while reiterating that restrictions on water use will remain in place.
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