The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has been aware of the looming drought in the region for years. “Save water” signs have not achieved much as about 40% of water available to the metro seems to be wasted.
Gift of the Givers founder and chair Dr Imtiaz Sooliman said:"There is always hope and possibilities with partnerships being the only rational, meaningful and practical manner to meet the crisis head on and arrive victorious. There's no place for party politics, opportunism or indecisiveness; the metro, its surroundings and 1.8 million people have to be"saved" and it has to be done yesterday.
“As organised businesses this is of huge concern to us because we need the basics in our environment to work. We have got involved in things that business wouldn't normally get involved in. We have just launched an adopt a leak initiative, where we have teams on the ground fixing leaks so we can rein in water losses,” van Huyssteen added.
The salt supplier says it has invested about R15m in a water desalination system over the past few years because of the drought in the Eastern Cape. Gift of the Givers has drilled six boreholes already, busy with two more, and striving towards thirty as far is practically possible.
Cerebos MD John Drinkwater told TimesLIVE: “Our biggest concern is exploitation. When there is no water people will pay anything for water and certainly we are very comfortable with Gift of the Givers that this product is actually going to go where it is needed.”
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