Joburg residents told to store water ahead of shutdown - htxt

Rand Water has reminded Johannesburg residents of a planned outage for next week, advising that they should store water.

Rand water says the purpose of the shutdown is to install isolation valves and conduct systems updates at Rand Water’s Eikenhof pump station.Johannesburg residents continue to have aas the latest issue they will need to deal with is a lack of access to water come next week. This as Rand Water has a planned outage set for roughly 44 hours between 11th and 13th July, starting at 19:00 next week Tuesday.

“During the shutdown, Johannesburg Water infrastructure supplied by Rand Water’s Eikenhof pump station will be affected by no water supply, as well as areas receiving direct water supply from Rand Water. It is estimated that full recovery of the systems may take approximately five days or longer after the supply has been fully restored,” Johannesburg Water said in a statement.

Johannesburg Water says it is currently planning for alternative water supply for critical infrastructure during this time, noting that hospitals, clinics, schools, municipal offices, police stations, and shopping centres, will be looked at. As for the areas in and around Johannesburg that will be affected by the Rand Water outage, the following has been detailed per

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