About 1.5-million litres of water are being lost every month from a burst pipe in the Moeggesukkel informal settlement in Bethelsdorp in parched Nelson Mandela Bay and, according to the residents, that is the way it has been for nearly a year, despite multiple attempts to alert the metro.
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, ANC, and water entity Amatola Water are getting huge backlash after it emerged that a massive water leak that has been running unfixed since November 2021, in the drought-stricken Gqeberha, has lost the metro 1.5 million litres of water a month.
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As another month passed with thousands of calls pertaining to water leaks being unsuccessful, the Nelson Mandela Bay water authorities are hoping its new call centre will be the answer.
As freshwater “Day Zero” looms for the climate change-stressed Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, home to 1.28 million people, officials face a difficult choice: risk failure of short-term groundwater supplies or seek long-term solutions.