Please use water sparingly over next three days and DO NOT fill additional water containers during this time.
All residents are urged to use water sparingly over the next three days, consumers are asked NOT TO fill additional water containers during this time as this puts an immediate strain on the supply system.
Since the electricity outage that was experienced about two weeks ago at the Nooitgedagt Water Treatment Works and the Elandsjagt Water Treatment Works the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM) has been struggling to recover from the water shortage.
To date the designed storage capacity of the distribution reservoirs have been coping with supplying water to the citizens of the NMBM. This is with the exception of Despatch that has experienced problems during this time.
The fact that problems were experience on two of the major supply systems has caused the delay filling the supply reservoirs simultaneously.
In addition, emergency repairs to the canal system that supply water to the Scheepersvlakte Dam (DWA) near Addo for the Nooitgedaght Water Treatment Works has caused a disruption of the water supply. This has resulted in a drastic drop in the level of Grassridge reservoir which supplies the Despatch reservoirs.
Whilst every effort is made to ensure that water disruption are kept to a minimum, consumers in the Uitenhage and Despatch areas are the most affected.
As the water supply system of the NMBM is an integrated system, the affected areas are being supplied with water from the other sources and thereby the whole system is stressed.
All citizens are therefore urged to use water sparingly for the next three days. Consumers are asked not to fill additional water containers during this time as this puts an immediate strain on the supply system.
Water intensive businesses and industries are asked to cut their water usage. Contractors are requested to use recycled water for construction purposes.
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Now that we are aware of the coming predicament, what’s that I hear? Aah, the clatter of pots, pans, buckets as the neighbourhood fills up every container available.
That clatter echoes the clatter of aging and dying infrastructure as the ‘hidden’ threat to our water supply rears it’s ugly head.
A double threat to our water supply.
What is the next one to make it a triple threat?