Joburg's water woes continue, as reservoirs refill but many taps still dry

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The planned 54-hour water outage that affected Johannesburg this week is officially over, but the system is yet to settle as refilling depleted reservoirs continues.

of two valve rigs on Wednesday that saw the introduction of a new pipeline to increase water supply to greater Johannesburg.said he was happy with the work done — everything had gone well and the system was in the process of normalising.

“What happens after the system is drained is that it becomes full of air. So when we start pumping water in again at full capacity, the channels are cleared and we can start the process of filling our reservoirs,” said Mohale. The result is that these Joburg Water reservoirs and towers remain affected: South Hills, Forest Hill, Crown Gardens, Eagles Nest, Naturena, Allenmanor, Crosby, Brixton, Hurst Hill, Waterval, Linden, Quellerina, Florida North and Constantia.

 

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Tht woman is praying😭

Still no water pressure and no response to telephone calls to the utility. Just muzak and waffle about debt relief. Which suburbs are affected by the various water towers?

Let's just wait and see.....

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