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Broken pipes, empty taps: Residents hit breaking point………

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December 04, 2025

The water crisis in Wilderness, which had left large parts of Wilderness and Kleinkrantz without water from Wednesday 19 November, reached epic proportions over the past week.

- Marguerite van Ginkel

Broken pipes, empty taps: Residents hit breaking point………

Repairs on the Kleinkrantz pipeline.

Despite continuous repair efforts by the George Municipality, new problems kept emerging, with several pipes bursting and water shooting into the air, visible from kilometres away.

By Tuesday 2 Desember, het die meeste inwoners weer 'n bestendige toevoer van kraanwater gehad, alhoewel sommige gebiede steeds lae druk gerapporteer het. Die week het 'n swaar tol geëis. Bejaarde inwoners het gesukkel om emmers van munisipale tenkwaens te dra, terwyl gastehuise en hotelle gedwing is om besprekings te kanselleer of gaste op hul eie koste te verskuif.

'n Inwoner van Wilderness moes sy hele oggendroetine herontdek. Hy het sy gewone badkamer verruil vir die strandablusies en 'n koue sonsopkomsstort geneem om gereed te maak vir werk. Hy het geskerts dat niks jou vinniger wakker maak as 'n yskoue slag en die moontlikheid dat 'n seemeeu jou sjampoe-tegniek beoordeel nie.

Met die toeristeseisoen in volle swang was die ekonomiese impak onmiddellik. Watertenkwaens het deur woonbuurte gesirkuleer om verligting te bied, terwyl berigte van verkleurde water en maagprobleme gesondheidsorgs gewek het en hernieude oproepe vir rampbestuursbetrokkenheid.

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