Residents, civil society groups and business leaders call for immediate action to fix the city’s collapsing water system

With the City of Johannesburg losing 40% of its water, the government has advised residents to get tanks and capture rain water to ease the burden

Ageing and a failure to maintain infrastructure are among the reasons so many people do not have clean water

The water shortage was caused by ‘an incident’ at the Eikenhof pump station, the bulk water supplier said

We have learned to live with sporadic electricity supply but South Africans will not be as kind to the government if our taps run dry

The water crisis has largely been caused by a power outage that affected the main pump station

But a resident says interventions are ‘a plaster on the wound’

Our water use is higher than the global average – and we need to fix infrastructure to reduce losses

Water outages have left many communities with dry spells since August as the city struggles with prolonged recovery periods of Rand Water and Johannesburg Water supply systems

With La Niña bringing much-needed rain, it is inexcusable that South Africans do not have access to their most basic human need: water

Zandspruit pump is a mess, says Joburg resident, citing load-shedding, lack of maintenance, high effluent volumes and poor infrastructure