Methane bubbles popping on the river’s surface, sewage pipes clogged with tampons, diapers and toilet paper, and the smell of faeces lingering in the air. These scenes are everyday realities for residents of Emfuleni – a municipality southwest of Johannesburg – as the breakdown of the area’s pipes, pumps and wastewater treatment plants causes sewage..
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SA Sewage system collapse a ticking ‘time bomb’ – Another reason why we live in a sh*thole country!
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ANC regime’s Multi-Billion Rand water project in Bosveld does not deliver a single drop of water
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It has now been five years since the big water project for the Bushveld area was started. The outcome was to supply water to some 50 small villages where black people live. After spending several billion Rand, there is not one drop of water for the villagers. Even the drowning of a six-year-old did not..
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Huge water crisis looming in Greater Pretoria area – several black residential areas, including squatter camps in the area can be left without water
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The Pretoria municipality calls on residents to use water sparingly to avoid an enormous crisis. The city’s storage tanks reached dangerously low levels due to high demand during the heat wave, which lasted several days. According to the government’s Twitter message, which only reaches about 60% of residents, residents are urged not to waste water…
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Standerton water crisis – poor management and incompetency of municipality costing millions
Call to save water in Gauteng: Day Zero is becoming more and more a reality after no rain falls and dam levels drop dangerously
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Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation (DWS), expressed her concern after the rain stayed away and dam levels dropped dangerously fast. She made a plight that people must immediately start saving water to avert a possible Day Zero in Gauteng. She announced in Johannesburg on Monday that Gautengers use an average of..
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All I can say is ‘God help us’ – Photos of Vaal River that shows how raw sewage is polluting our drinking water
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Photos of the Vaal River in Vereeniging at 06h00 today 24th Oct 2019. This is our only Vaal River. There is no substitute and it will soon be impossible to fix. If you think no electricity is an inconvenience then wait for no water. 3 days and you’re dead. This is a national emergency people..
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Water taps run empty at Sol Plaatjies Municipality – ANC officials totally incompetant and reckless to run municipality, no wonder SA is a Sh*t hole country
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Residents in the Northern Cape municipality of Sol Plaatjies including Kimberley are still without running water. After four days of empty taps, while promises of a new water pump have not yet delivered, people are distraught over the incompetence of the local authority. Thousands of people in Kimberley had to make plans themselves to obtain..
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Western Cape recovers after severe drought – dams average content achieved 82%
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The good rain of recent months has brought the Western Cape out of the grip of a severe drought that has brought farmers, tourism and real estate agencies back on track. The drought that has been the worst in the last 100 years has been broken in most of the province and water storage dams..
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Northern Cape Experiencing Worst Drought in 50 Years, Yet Still Struggles to Be Declared Drought Stricken Disaster Area
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The drought in the Northern Cape province which has been ongoing for the past 5 years is the worst it has ever been in the past 50 years, and farmers are being ruined due to the government dragging its feet. Northern Cape Premier Dr. Zamani Saul is being asked to declare a provincial emergency and escalate the issue as quickly as possible.
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ANC-managed Victor Khanye municipality apparently owes more than R100m to water, and about R46m to electricity – residents now demand to know who are the culprits stealing all the money
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“We all pay our municipal bills regularly, who are stealing all the money”, is the question now asked by Delmas and local residents after it became known that millions of rand are in arrears on water and electricity. The Victor Khanye municipality, which includes Delmas, apparently owes more than R100m to water, and about R46m..
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Fill up your water buckets and containers, 54-hour water shutdown looming for Joburg residents
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Level 2 water restrictions imposed in Johannesburg – residents will be with limited water for two days from next Monday, Joburg Water has advised. Rand Water, which is the city’s main bulk water supplier, plans a major shutdown on June 24 that will affect all reservoirs supplying water to the city, Environment and Infrastructure Services..
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ANC –regime states that water supply in SA is sufficient to meet all demands although sewage pollution and no maintenance of municipal structures wastes millions of liters of water
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South Africa has enough water to provide the residents within the winter months, but then it must be used sparingly. This is according to ANC government spokesman who also states that the water is sufficient to meet the needs during the coming dry months of the year. However, experts are much more concerned about the..
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South Africa Re-elects A Corrupt, Racist, Incompetent, Nepotist ANC Again! White Guilt No Longer Required, Poverty is What The People Want!
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As South Africa teeters on the brink, it re-elects hopeless ANC again! Do we now finally admit that post-apartheid South Africa has totally failed at its role as Africa’s shining light of a liberal multicultural democracy? While it is not the European white man’s job to tell Africans how to manage their rich and spectacular land or who to vote for, it is our duty to be honest with them if we think they have lost their way.
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With (the bottomless pit) Eskom in financial trouble and the supply of electricity might be problematic in the future, you now need to start banking water like money
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Water shortages could be the next crisis to hit your home and business. What can you do about it now? The old saying “spend money like water” may soon be “spend water like money”. Having an Abeco Tank is like having a water savings account. You bank water in the same way you bank excess..
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Forget power cuts. What’s happening to our water supply is much more serious. After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, SA is vulnerable to medieval, water-borne diseases and something even more serious: thirst.
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Villages, towns and even a capital city are experiencing severe water shortages, caused by a combination of years of bad management and drought. Many Limpopo villages have no water at all. Kimberley has its water switched off every night. The army is trying to stop millions of litres of sewage from going into the Vaal..
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