There’s a worm in my tap water – Birchleigh resident
All this Birchleigh resident wants is clean drinking water.
A Birchleigh resident says she will quench her thirst with anything but tap water after she had found worms in her tap.
And yes, the little creatures were alive.
“First, I thought this can’t be, so I just ignored it,” explains Ina Cloete (63). But after one week and finding the third bug and even small pieces of toilet paper in her tap water, she realised something was very wrong.
Cloete caught two of these little worms in small glass bottles to show Express. The creatures swim to the top when she decides to turn the bottle around.
“No one would want to drink this,” Cloete says. She hasn’t touched a glass of water since.
“All I want is clean water. Imagine having to cook with it.”
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According to ward councillor Gideon van Zyl, Cloete did speak to him about the issue.
“I contacted the department head of Ekurhuleni and someone was sent to address the problem,” he told Express. “They found there was nothing wrong with the municipal water, but with Cloete’s own pipeline.”
Therefore, other Birchleigh residents don’t have to worry too much that they’ll find creepy crawlies in their water.
The metro has been approached for comment but at the of publishing failed to comment.
