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