eThekwini Municipality Water Outage Latest: City to fix problem
eThekwini Municipality assured residents on Thursday night that it is attending to the widespread water outage in the Pinetown area.
eThekwini Municipality is working around the clock to restore water to resident’s taps in Pinetown and surrounding areas the city announced on Thursday night.
The municipality said a major leak had led to the emptying of a local reservoir which had impacted water services across several areas in the city’s Highway area.
“Due to a major leak on one of Umngeni Water’s delivery manifolds that feeds Mt Moriah resevoir, a water repository for Pinetown, water got depleted with speed at the reservoir,” eThekwini Municipality said in a statement on Thursday.
KZN municipalities secure R3.1 billion to improve water infrastructure
By Sakhiseni Nxumalo
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DURBAN - KwaZulu-Natal municipalities have secured R3.1 billion to tackle water infrastructure challenges outlined in the provincial Water Master Plan.
KZN Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC, Sipho Hlomuka, revealed this in his departmentâs budget policy speech at the KZN Legislature, on Friday.
The provincial Water Master Plan focuses on the construction of new dams, maintenance, rehabilitation of ageing infrastructure, and improved revenue collection.
The plan was presented in January this year to the portfolio committee on local government as a work in progress.
Hlokuma said the funds would go towards the improvement of water infrastructure in the provinceâs municipalities.