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The Nelson Mandela Bay metro has only 184 days worth of water supply from its five supply dams. The combined dam levels currently sit at a low of 12.7%.

[File image] Water being poured into a container.combined dam levels currently sit at a low of 12.7%.

The dam levels continue to drop. Residents are urged to reduce consumption to meet the 230 mega-litres per day target. “What we are currently doing is to be able to put a plan in place to ensure that water distribution is not through the conventional way of pipe system but through tanks, where we will install rainwater tanks and fill them up with these trucks and then have collection points where we encourage residents to pick up water.

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So basically USA ambassador are controlling affairs of South Africa remember what NATO gang ambassadors did to Turkey they left just before killing

NMB will probably never get enough rain to fill its dams. If it couldn't happen in this year of floods it's unlikely to ever. Time to accept that climate change has done it dirty.

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