'Current rainfall has had no impact on dam levels' - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The Department says if the rainfall can persist for much longer that's when we could start seeing improvement in dam levels.has had no impact on the dam levels – and some continue to decline.

The Department says if the rainfall persists for longer, then it could result in improvement in dam levels. This however is not good news, as the South African Weather Service anticipates the rainfall will start subsiding from Wednesday.Vaal Dam , for instance, has continued to decline over the last two days… it is now standing at about 39% – whereas last week this time it was about 42%. It gives you a picture of where things are. We are expecting some rains in the catchments in Mpumalanga and Ermelo, we believe that would be able to assist us, but it won’t be immediate as the water will take a couple of days before it comes into the system.

It's because our drainage infrastructure is poor so the water that is supposed to fill up the dams are just flooding the street

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