After the announcement of the introduction of water shedding on Kempton Express’ Facebook page on Friday, one resident, Jacques Lombard, expressed his concern about the aging water infrastructure in the city.
This is what he had to say:
“With their current infrastructure they cannot switch off water and on every day.
The pipelines have not been serviced in years. Recent evidence has proven, that every time they switch off water and back on again, something goes wrong.
For every pipe they fix they break several others. If this is guaranteed, we will unfortunately be without water for much longer than a few hours a day.
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We should also fine the council R1.7-million for the wastage in several streets that has had no maintenance done, as reported by Kempton Express and various social media sites.
The rainfall has decreased significantly over the past few years. This has been coming for a while. Once again, the government/municipalities only react rather to be pro-active. Pathetic.
I myself use only between 7 and 17kl a month. How the hell do they expect me to cut back on a 7kl month?
Yet, as with load shedding, everyone gets punished, guilty or innocent. Unfortunately, for some of us this will mean much more than just a few drops of water less.
Every time they switch on the system, and you have old pipes/system to your house, you notice damage. I had to put non-return valves in my system to stop my pipes from running dry and my heat pump (geyser) from running dry.
Flushing geyser water down the toilet, literaly!
