The Department’s Director General Dr Sean Phillips says various factors occurred at the same time coincidentally, leading to water supply challenges.
“We’ve had very severe load shedding and that has made it difficult to pump sufficient water into the reservoirs, secondly there’s been this heat wave, which has resulted in the spike in demand, particularly by people using more water to water their gardens, and their grass; and thirdly, normally it would have started raining and normally when it starts raining, people switch off their sprinkler systems.
Mchunu says the increase of the bulk water allocation to Rand Water should bring much-needed relief to affected metros in Gauteng. Minister Mchunu’s spokesperson Kamogelo Mogotsi says more water will be made available to Rand Water as a temporary measure. “Currently, Rand Water abstracts 4400 megalitres of water and has already exceeded this allocation by over 1600 megalitres since the beginning of the spring season.
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