The Vaal Dam supplies water to Vanderbijlpark, Bophelong, Tshepiso and Boipatong. Residents have taken to social media to express dissatisfaction and dismay with not having had water for the past week.
The utility is expected to cut off supply for over 10 hours in some parts of Soweto and the City of Joburg on Tuesday and Thursday.
Residents in Naledi Lusaka and Doornkop in Soweto as well as communities in Tshepisong can expect their taps to run dry for more than 10 hours during the interruptions.
The Gauteng provincial command council briefed the media on rising COVID-19 cases on 4 June 2021. Premier David Makhura said continued load shedding, water cuts and the temporary closure of the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital were exacerbating the health crisis in the province. #GautengProvincialCommandCouncil #COVID19 #DavidMakhura
In April 2021, Eyewitness News reported on Goza Primary School, a school in Soweto that has been fighting for six years for access to safe drinking water on its premises. Private funders such as AECI picked up on the story and decided to donate much-needed water services to the school. #GozaPrimary #WaterCrisis #BasicRights
Joburg Water has on Thursday been instructed by the bulk water-supplier to implement restrictions of between 20% to 45% of its water supply to some customers.
Hotels, retirement villages, and schools were affected by the seven-day long water outage.
The City said load shedding of this severity would likely constrain its ability to provide water supply in the reticulation system across Cape Town.
Municipality’s Mayor Mzukisi Mpahlwa said repair work was completed on Friday.
Residents living on the East of Makhanda have been without water since last week and were calling on government to urgently address the matter.
The city has urged those in affected areas, including Montana Park Extension 112, Bronkhorstspruit CBD, Zithobeni, eNkangala and the Thembisile Hani Local Municipality, to store enough water.
The Mopani District Municipality in Limpopo is R520 million in the red, ranking in the top five of councils who have not been paying for water supply.
The Water and Sanitation Department says its owed R10.7 billion by the defaulting municipalities.
Unless Cape Town has a miraculously wet spring, the summer of 2018 seems set to achieve some unfortunate new records.
This is the third day the school has been shut down due to a water cut.
In one instance a man was fined R2,000 for hosing down a concrete surface with potable water.
Water tankers have been sent to various points in the area after a water leak resulted in water cuts.
Several dams and reservoirs in Gauteng are running low this weekend affecting water supply in several areas.
