The Department of Water and Sanitation in the Eastern Cape has called on residents to adhere to water restrictions imposed by local municipalities to ensure water security.
The department said the metro, which has been hit by drought since 2015, is seeing most of its dams lowering at concerning percentages, with 12.1% dam levels recorded this week from last week’s 12.3%.
According to a weekly report on the status of dam levels issued by the department early this week, Kouga Dam is at 12.8% from last week’s 13.1%, with Impofu Dam on the Krom River also decreased to 10.1%. “One of the reasons we can attribute the low dam levels to is that there have only been six months of rainfall above the average monthly rainfall since 2018.
He said the scheme intends to supply water to the eastern side of Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, but through collaborative efforts aimed at ensuring that the western side of the metro does not dry out. Currently, 90ML/day is being pumped through to the western side, with the aim of increasing to 120ML/day.
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