Use the water in the Tugela

The article on the wave making machine was hilarious. It was a good April Fool’s joke and much appreciated.
I hope that the article on the desalination plant was also an April Fool’s joke. That plant you say will produce 150 million litres a day. It sounds impressive but let’s break it down to size.
150 million litres is 150 thousand cubic metres. The Tugela river probably has an average annual flow rate of about 200 cumecs (cubic metres per second), probably more. 150 thousand cubic metres divided by 200 cumecs = 750 seconds. That means it would take the Tugela 750 seconds per day to provide the water which the desalination would take all day to provide.
That is 12 and a half minutes per day. And your spokesperson says that the Tugela will possibly be overused? When it is about to enter the sea unused?
Can someone tell us what is going on here? Is this another of these strange decisions which has continuously plagued this country, sending us rapidly downhill?
What we need is another pipeline or more from the Tugela to relieve the poor Umgeni, not an expensive plant to make a few people rich and the rest of us poorer.

MICHEL DE RAUVILLE
Salt Rock