This follows after large parts of the province were announced to have a water crisis early this month. Affected metropolitan municipalities include, the City of Joburg, Tshwane and the City of Ekurhuleni which hit stage 2 water restrictions this week, followed by a heatwave and infrastructural damage caused by load-shedding.
Rand Water has however urged residents in this area to start saving water “to avoid necessitating the move to higher stages of restrictions in the province” (Business Tech).
Rand Water spokesperson, Makenosi Mario warned that if the public consumption does not decrease then an implementation of higher stages of water restrictions will follow.
“We will have to more up to different stages to ensure we manage the situation” she said.
She also added that the public will be notified if changes in stages are done.
There is plan; we always communicate with our clients the municipalities in this case. We warn them in advance – we warned them about a month ago to say we are monitoring our reservoirs
“Everyone has now stages. This country seems like it is going to have a sudden collapse soon… Total black out and no water because of poor management, wasteful expenditures and not doing maintenance” commented a concerned citizen.
