No water for 25 days and counting: Bethal's pipe of hope brings relief

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For the past 25 days the town of Bethal and the nearby Emzinoni township in Mpumalanga has been without water.

 

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carteblanchetv this is the story I emailed you about yesterday. Bethal - the town where the water reservoir is leaking, the pumps aren't working and because the govanmbeki municipality can't pay the water bill, Rand_Water has cut the town's water supply! waterisabasicneed

I hear Rand Water is owed more than R200 million and want 50% before they re-connect the town.

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