Water cuts
Water restored to Tshwane while Jo’burg residents warned to brace for water cut
The City of Tshwane says its reservoirs are improving following supply disruptions earlier this week.
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List of areas that'll be affected by Rand Water’s 54-hour water outage
Supply to certain areas in Johannesburg looks set to be disrupted from next Monday as Rand Water works on a pipe that supplies their Vereeniging water purification plant.
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Desperate residents to march on Rand Water to demand water supply turned back on
Some communities in Tshwane, Ekurhuleni and Joburg were without water for extended periods, getting little to no help from their respective municipalities and Rand Water.
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Emfuleni Municipality insists water supply challenges have been fixed
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.
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Joburg Water urges affected residents to store water ahead of maintenance cuts
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.
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Joburg Water warns residents of upcoming water cuts
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.
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Makhura: Load shedding, water cuts hurting Gauteng’s health response to COVID-19
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
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After 6-year struggle for water, Soweto school finally gets help
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
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Apart from load shedding, Joburg residents now also have to deal with water cuts
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.
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City of Tshwane says technicians working to restore water to affected areas
Hotels, retirement villages, and schools were affected by the seven-day long water outage.
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‘Use water sparingly’: Capetonians warned power cuts could impact water supply
The City said load shedding of this severity would likely constrain its ability to provide water supply in the reticulation system across Cape Town.
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Makana Municipality restores water after 'sabotage' act
Municipality’s Mayor Mzukisi Mpahlwa said repair work was completed on Friday.
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Makana municipality suspects sabotage as residents continue to go without water
Residents living on the East of Makhanda have been without water since last week and were calling on government to urgently address the matter.
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Maintenance to disrupt Tshwane water supply on Thursday
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.
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Municipality blames customers for its failure to pay water bill
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.
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Defaulting municipalities given 2 months to pay bills or face water cuts
The Water and Sanitation Department says its owed R10.7 billion by the defaulting municipalities.
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[OPINION] How Cape Town can win support for the next round of water cuts
Unless Cape Town has a miraculously wet spring, the summer of 2018 seems set to achieve some unfortunate new records.
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Ormonde Primary remains closed due to water cuts, parents frustrated
This is the third day the school has been shut down due to a water cut.
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City of CT carries out blitz to curb water wastage
In one instance a man was fined R2,000 for hosing down a concrete surface with potable water.
