Johannesburg Mayor Sello Dada Morero, meanwhile said the region’s aging water treatment infrastructure needs extensive renovations.
“This is not really about water shortage. It’s really about the inability to pump water due to technical challenges including power outages. But there is sufficient water,” says Morero.a series of power outages“We actually require 2500 kilolitres per hour for our pumps to operate at optimal levels. The power interruption meant that the reservoir for our bulk supplier went low which affected our reservoirs as well,” says Mukwevho.
Years of neglecting, can't expect wonders
Most People that get free water abuse it, I pay for it and am priveleged to use how much I want to, if it runs out I can afford to buy bottled water, that's my new safrican attitude now