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Don’t panic says Rand Water to Gauteng residents

Late last week Gauteng residents received a notice from Rand Water that it will be conducting maintenance for 54 hours from 24th June (today), and urged residents not to panic.

Following the media statement, IOL News reports that Rand Water has assured residents that water will be flowing as normal and also urged them not to stockpile on water as this will drain the system and result in an increase of days for raising water levels.

“Our biggest worry is that people will stock water and once they realise that they didn’t need to stockpile, some will throw the water away and waste it,” said Rand Water spokesperson, Justice Mohale.

He adds that this was not a shutdown but rather the connection of pipelines B19 and B11 with a valve, and that the plant which would be affected was in Vereeniging, where water would be stopped for a while for the connection of the pipeline to take place.

The main purpose of the pipeline is to augment raw water into the Rand Water system. That new pipeline will add further 1 600 megalitres of raw water. “It is going to assist greatly by making sure enough raw water will be purifies as the demand has been increasing,” Mohale explains.

“People are still going to have water in their taps, we don’t anticipate any problems with supply as far as Joburg Water is concerned, Most of our reservoirs are able to two days,” added Joburg Water spokesperson, Isaac Dhludlu.

[Source – IOL News]
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