Flood-hit Durban to ration water for year

South Africa’s eastern eThekwini Municipality, which includes the port city of Durban, plans to ration water for about a year, dealing another blow to a regional economy damaged by the worst flooding in almost three decades and deadly riots. The rationing, scheduled to start in some parts of the area from Monday, is being implemented to enable the repair and recommissioning of raw water pipelines damaged during heavy rains in April, the municipality said in a statement on its website.

It warned that the shortfall will persist for the next 10 to 12 months, with contractors hired by the state-owned Umgeni Water expected to finish work on the damaged pipelines by June 2023. eThekwini, South Africa’s third-largest urban centre, is part of the KwaZulu-Natal province — the second-biggest contributor to the country’s gross domestic product.

South Africa is slowly (but surely), slipping through the palms of a functional system & structure, to a failed state like: Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Zim or Sierra Leone. The decay is beyond repair at this point. Unfortunately pointing the finger at racism cannot apply here.

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