Joburg residents lament ongoing water outages: ‘We can’t bath, we can't cook'

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Joburg residents lament ongoing water outages: ‘We can’t bath, we can't cook'
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Residents in parts of Gauteng were continuing to experience large-scale water outages for almost three weeks, with little reprieve from bulk water supplier Rand Water.

JOHANNESBURG - Residents in the west of Johannesburg complained that despite paying rates and taxes, there was little effort to correct the water situation in their areas.

Some Johannesburg residents opened their taps on Tuesday morning hoping that the worst was over after weeks of interrupted supply, only to find that there was, in fact, still no water.

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