Rand Water adds to woes

WATER: MAINTENANCE DONE – BUT SO IS DAMAGE TO SYSTEM, SAYS WATERCAN

- Marizka Coetzer

The major maintenance by Rand Water, supposedly completed, has only added to Joburg's water woes.

Rand Water's maintenance messed up the system with many areas experiencing outages, WaterCAN's Dr Ferrial Adam said.

"That Rand Water update is outrageous. Basically, they have caused problems and are now washing their hands of it."

"Large parts of Johannesburg did not recover from the maintenance - Yeoville and Berea only got water yesterday," she said.

Following the Zwartkopjes maintenance work, Rand Water started charging the system immediately but two pipes burst on the C11 pipeline between Zwartkopjes Farm and the Mall of the South, Rand Water spokesperson Makenosi Maroo said.

The air valves at those locations had been vandalised while the pipeline was in isolation during the maintenance work at the Zwartkopjes Booster Pumping Station, Maroo said.