‘Our taps are still dry’

ERMELO: SOME RESIDENTS HAVE NOT HAD WATER FOR THREE MONTHS

- Masoka Dube

Residents of Ermelo in Mpumalanga are frustrated over water shortages that have affected the area for about three months now.

They said they were buying water to drink and cook because their taps either run dry, or the water is dirty and brownish in colour.

Several residents said yesterday the municipality did not give them straight answers.

Community leader Juliette Basson said businesses were shutting down because of the water crisis.

“There are people who did not have water for almost three months, other did not have it for almost a month,” said Basson.

“As a community, we are unhappy because we are now buying water as the municipality is not supplying enough.”