Wednesday. July 10th, 2024
Author: Quinz Atdah Qeqe(South Africa)
Rand Waters Planned Maintenance Team At The Bergbron (Johannesburg) Site On The 25th June 2024
Photo By: Jacques Nelles (Eyewitness News)
SUMMARY
Rand Water has been the main utility in bulk water supply to South Africa’s Gauteng Province since 1905. In recent years Gauteng’s demand for water supply has rapidly increased, this due to an upward trend in rural-urban migration and industrialization within the province (Rand Water, 2024). On the 19th June 2024, Rand Water published a public paper indicating that it had exceeded its presiding departments (Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS)) licensed allocation in terms of its abstraction limit from its major supplier in raw water (the Integrated Vaal River System(IVRS)). Rand water went on to indicate its planned activities to mitigate an impending water crisis within the Gauteng province (Rand Water, 2024). The planned maintenance would take effect from the 22nd June to the 29th July 2024. Since the inception of Rand Waters maintenance operations many municipalities, businesses, health facilities and residents within the province have been severely affected as a result of an insufficient supply in water, with some parts of Johannesburg and East Rand having little to no water supply since the 25th of June 2024 (Kgosana, 2024).
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