The DA has submitted a petition to Parliament calling for both Rand Water and the Ekurhuleni Metro Municipality to appear before the portfolio committee on water and sanitation.
Gauteng, and the rest of the country, is experiencing the worst drought in 23 years.
In Ekurhuleni t,his drought has been compounded by poor management by Rand Water and the metro, which has resulted in water shortages in the municipality and many households’ taps running dry.
To date over 1 200 residents have signed the petition, which calls for the portfolio committee to interrogate Rand Water and the metro to give deadlines as to when:
1. Rand Water will install independent power supplies at all of its pump stations.
2. The metro will implement the computerised telemetry system – so that they can verify, at the push of a button, the levels of water at their reservoirs, instead of using the stick method;
3. Their action plan to repair water infrastructure as Ekurhuleni is losing 39.8 per cent of all its water.
4. The reasons why the financial statements submitted to the Gauteng Treasury showed that, at the end of the 2014/15 financial year, in June, the metro had spent only 48 per cent of the R127-million budgeted for waste water management and had failed to spend 46 per cent of the R333-m allocated to water services.
Residents who have not signed the petition can still do so by going to the following link: www.petitions24.com/water_crisis
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