Mayor to meet disgruntled eThekwini residents on water crisis
eThekwini Mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda will meet with residents
who're facing intermittent water supply in the northern areas of Durban today.
Angry residents took to the streets this week, demanding an end to their water woes.
Durban North, Tongaat, Phoenix, Umhlanga and Verulam are some of the affected areas.
In a press briefing yesterday, the National Department of Water and Sanitation said infrastructure left badly damaged by the floods in recent years, has been a contributing factor to the water supply disruptions.
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Director-General, Sean Phillips says eThekwini is utilizing national flood damage repair grants and its own allocated budget to carry out repair work.
" To date, the municipality has approximately R300 million rand on the repair of water infrastructure damaged in the April 2022 floods. The floods which occurred earlier this month also caused considerable damage to water infrastructure and resulted in disruptions to supply in many areas.
Approximately 90% of the required repair work, resulting from the recent floods has been completed. Work is currently underway to repair sections of the pumping main pipeline to Tongaat south reservoir that was washed away and resulted in major supply disruption in Tongaat. This is due to be completed this weekend."
