Moseley, Northdene residents furious after weeks without water
Residents have been without water or had a limited water supply for 31 days.
FRUSTRATIONS and anger have been growing in the Moseley and Northdene communities due to severe and prolonged disruptions to their water supply.
In Moseley taps have run dry and residents have been without water for 31 days.
This boiled over on the weekend as several residents staged an informal protest along Main Road in the hopes of getting the eThekwini Municipality to take action.
The area is fed by the Firwood Reservoir, however, the problem with water supply to the areas within Ward 63 have been intermittent.
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Residents are desperate for solutions, explained Aurore Morgan, who organised one of the protest spots on Main Road over the weekend.
“Our plight is difficult and it is even more so for the elderly and disabled, including the Cheshire Homes and schools in our area. Moseley has bore the brunt, going weeks without water. If the water does come back it returns for two hours and you can never predict when that is,” Morgan said.
“The reason the community got together to hold this protest is we cannot sit back and listen to the b/s with the excuses. We are told on a daily basis that the water is rising or that there’s no more water in the reservoir, or there’s a problem with aqueduct. We just want water and for someone to definitively say what the issues are.”
In his speech at the Exco meeting last week, Durban mayor Cyril Xaba said it was “unacceptable” that residents suffer without water.
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“In the last three months, we were inundated with calls from irate residents complaining about water challenges. In the short to medium term, we are implementing the Water Turnaround Strategy which has been endorsed by National Treasury. The strategy encompasses interventions to address water losses or non-revenue water. We are also investing in building and upgrading water and sanitation infrastructure,” Xaba said.
Xaba also admitted in the meeting that water supply challenges are now worse than before.
He added he was pleased that various projects are being implemented to address the increasing demand for water in the City.
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