Reservoir levels low: Use water sparingly to raise levels
Ward 97 councillor André Beetge urges residents who have restored water supply to reduce consumption to allow reservoirs to fill up.
RESIDENTS that have water have been asked to reduce consumption to allow reservoirs to fill up to stable levels.
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This comes after areas from Isipingo and Amanzimtoti to Umgababa experienced a water shortage as a result of uMngeni-uThukela Water conducting a planned water shutdown on July 25 to do some work on the South Coast Augmentation (SCA) pipeline which supplies reservoirs from Isipingo to Pennington.
The shutdown was planned to take place from 08:00 to 16:00, but Ward 97 councillor André Beetge said supply from the SCA only resumed at 00:05 on Friday morning.
“To those that have water, please drastically reduce consumption so reservoir levels can stabilise and afford availability to more. It is a vast system that demands 100 million litres per day, and it will take time to fill and recover,” he said.
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