As the water crisis intensifies in NelsonMandelaBay, people queue for hours to fill containers from JoJo tanks filled by municipal tankers. Moneyweb WaterCrisis ImpofuDam
As the water crisis intensifies in Nelson Mandela Bay, people queue for hours to fill containers from JoJo tanks filled by municipal tankers. Dam levels are at 14.7% of combined capacity, but the accessible water that can be transferred to treatment plants and reservoirs in Nelson Mandela Bay is currently at 2.3% of dam capacity. This changes slightly according to how the barges extracting the water are moved.
When this tank is empty, we buy five-litres of water from the shops for R6 in order to cook. But for my family of four that is not enough.” Twenty-year-old Anathi Gqeshe was busy filling 30 two-litre bottles for his family of seven. “This is exhausting,” he said. “Since February I have been fetching water like this. Three of my siblings need water to bath and go to school and others to work.
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