Joburg Water
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Joburg residents unite to demand action over city’s water emergency
Residents, civil society groups and business leaders call for immediate action to fix the city’s collapsing water system
Rand Water reveals 2.5 billion litres of water is lost daily by Gauteng municipalities
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
Myriad causes of SA’s water crisis
Ageing and a failure to maintain infrastructure are among the reasons so many people do not have clean water
Closed valve not behind 12-day outage, says Rand Water
The water shortage was caused by ‘an incident’ at the Eikenhof pump station, the bulk water supplier said
Joburg water cuts are playing with fire
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
Joburg Water says reservoirs are filling after parts of city go 10 days without water
The water crisis has largely been caused by a power outage that affected the main pump station
Joburg Water says systems are improving
But a resident says interventions are ‘a plaster on the wound’
Cape Town offers lessons on how to save water
Our water use is higher than the global average – and we need to fix infrastructure to reduce losses
Water cuts creating hostile communities, says Joburg Water
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
Contaminated or none at all: South Africa’s water affairs are cause for concern
With La Niña bringing much-needed rain, it is inexcusable that South Africans do not have access to their most basic human need: water
‘Gargantuan’ amount of sewage flowing from Joburg pump station
Zandspruit pump is a mess, says Joburg resident, citing load-shedding, lack of maintenance, high effluent volumes and poor infrastructure