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Prolonged load-shedding, ageing infrastructure and vandalism are some of the factors adding pressure to Johannesburg Water’s Commando system, resulting in water shortages and outages.

Prolonged load-shedding, ageing infrastructure and vandalism are some of the factors adding pressure to Johannesburg Water’s Commando system, resulting in water shortages and outages.

While Johannesburg Water continues with interventions to improve and secure a steady water supply, ongoing water cuts are causing a lot of frustration for many residents in the city. Daily Maverick asked Joburg Water to answer questions about what’s causing the interruptions to the supply and w...

The Johannesburg Water Commando System is grappling with myriad of challenges, which is impacting on the sustainable supply of water to the regions the entity services; however, interventions are being pursued to rectify this. Johannesburg Water procures water from bulk supplier Rand Water, and then supplies about 1.6-billion litres of potable water daily, through its network of water infrastructure, which comprises 129 reservoirs, as well as water towers.

A power failure at Rand Water’s purification works treatment plant in Vereeniging in the early hours of Monday has severely affected pumping capacity at the bulk supplier’s Eikenhof pump station.

Power cuts take out Johannesburg’s water system as 27 mobile tankers race around the city to deliver the life-giving liquid.

Municipalities and water entities across South Africa have called on residents to use water sparingly as they battle continued high levels of rolling blackouts and increased demand for water as temperatures soar.

There are more than 20 trucks delivering water to areas supplied by the Hursthill reservoir, which has run dry.

Ahmed Ahmed, 65, complained that flies had invaded his and his neighbours' homes.

Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu says his department intervenes wherever water challenges arise.