ALM rests on their laurels while precious water wastes away
The AbaQulusi Municipality had failed to attend with any sense of urgency to a situation which led to possibly thousands upon thousands of litres of precious water draining away.
On June 23, former chairman of the Abaqulusi Residents’ Association, Doug Grewar reported a burst pipe at the Paddadam to the local municipality.
Mr Grewar stated that he had reported the matter to Ngobile on the ALM fault reporting number, 0800 201 102 and had also left a voice message on the engineer’s phone. On July 1, Grewar noted that, despite the impending water crisis and already imposed water restrictions, nothing had been done to repair the burst pipe.
The AbaQulusi Municipality had failed to attend with any sense of urgency to a situation which led to possibly thousands upon thousands of litres of precious water draining away.
On the bright side, however, when we met with Mr Grewar at the Paddadam on Thursday, July 9, there was evidence that the matter had eventually been attended to, albeit after an unnecessarily long period of time.
