🔒 ‘It’s become normal to go days without water’ – Dewetsdorp residents
A boarding school in the area had to close early last term due to water shortages, which force learners to wash in basins every day.
On a good day in Dewetsdorp just outside Bloemfontein, residents would have about two hours of water supply but it was normal for the community to go days without the basic commodity and this was due to a lack of one important tool – reservoir pumps. “Because 15% of the municipal reservoirs are filled, the municipality has to close the valves and shut off the water completely to build up the capacity of 15% again which is then opened up to the upper part of town so everyone can get water for two hours. When the reservoirs run dry again, they close the valves again,” Du Bruyn explained.This has however become the norm in the area as people have found ways of surviving without water.“We just get water from the river over the hill.
A water reservoir at the Christiaan De Wet High School in Dewetsdorp, 9 December 2021, Freestate. Due to the water challenges in the area the school has obtained its own storage capacity of up to 400 000 litres of water. Picture: Jacques Nelles
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