A week on, parts of Pretoria still have no water as residents await answers

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A number of areas in Tshwane continued to have no water on Thursday.

Supply to these areas has not resumed since Rand Water attended to leaks the previous Thursday, September 16.

The city councillor for ward 61, which includes Laudium and Erasmia, Farouk Essop, said there was no water in Laudium on Thursday afternoon.Essop said he did not know what to tell residents about when the supply would return to normal. Neither Tshwane managers norThe municipality on Wednesday said that due to continued inadequate water pressure from Rand Water, it was rerouting the supply of water to help high-lying areas.

“The challenge is that there is very little pressure and flow, if any, coming into our reservoirs – to the extent that the reservoir levels are not improving.

 

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