Tag: water
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Burst pipes, falling levels and unplanned fixes: Numbers behind Joburg’s water crisis
Joburg’s water woes have been decades in the making, with ageing infrastructure and poor maintenance unable to keep up with a growing population. In the past two months, unplanned maintenance incidents have doubled compared to planned ones, affecting over 440 suburbs.
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Joburg’s water: How to know if it’s safe to drink
Joburg Water’s Cydna, Goudkoppies and Northern Works laboratories test the city’s water daily – testing up to 500 samples a month
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Joburg has water issues even when the dams are full
Rand Water, the utlity that supplies Joburg with water, should only withdraw 1.6-billion kilolitres a year from the Vaal River System and that has to be shared among 12 municipalities.
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Q&A with two experts on water and local municipalities
We asked two experts about the biggest challenges facing municipalities supplying water in South Africa.
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Schools still don’t meet minimum standards nine years after deadlines to fix them were put in place
The Department of Basic Education now appears to want to remove the deadlines altogether