Officials in the metro provided an update on how they plan to prevent Day Zero.
The metro is facing one of its worst droughts in history where dam levels have dropped drastically and at least 3,000 water leaks have been reported.
It adopted a new water leaks strategy on Monday, repairing more than 800 of its 3,000 leaks in the metro.
Party leaders are anticipating that taps in the drought-stricken area will run dry by the end of the week. They said that the metro's leaders in Nelson Mandela Bay were not controlling the water crisis effectively.
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said that he had written to the mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Eugené Johnson, offering Cape Town’s technical advice, assistance and disaster management support.
The community of Gelvandale said that their calls to get the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality to fix their water leakages had been ignored.
The DA federal council chair did not mince her words when she made scathing remarks about how the water infrastructure was handled by the municipality.
The NGO is currently drilling boreholes in Gqebera following the recent visit by the Minister of Water and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu, who provided more details about government intervention to address the water crisis.
John Maytham spoke to senior 'Daily Maverick' journalist, Estelle Ellis, about what the impact of this will be.
