Water shortage in PE!!!

[gummibear]

There are few things that make my blood boil but this whole thing is one that does.

For the last few years no planning has been done to get more water into our dams and now we have a huge problem in a city as big as PE.

Some of our dams are below 25% but still our municipallity is doing advertising instead of planning how to get out of this mess.

This is how bad it is:

 

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We received the following press release from NMBM today:

 

?Water supply to several <?: prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Nelson Mandela Bay suburbs is affected due to various reasons.

 

The Gamtoos Irrigation Board (GIB) releases water on a daily basis from the Kouga Dam for use by the irrigators and also to top up the Loerie Dam. The Municipality extracts water from the Loerie Dam for treatment and use in large parts of the Metro.

 

Since yesterday no water has been released by the GIB which resulted in a substantial drop in the levels of two bulk storage reservoirs.

 

The water level at the Chelsea Reservoir is currently 16% which could mean that parts of the Western Suburbs (Westering, Kabega Park, Rowallan Park, Cotswold and parts of Malabar) could be adversely affected by this afternoon if no more water is pumped through the system.

 

Water tankers are in the area to provide water to the affected suburbs.?

 

Residents, this is serious and I want to urge all of you to please use water sparingly.  Please remember that you can report any leaks or wasteage of water in public areas to 0800205050 (Call free) or waterleaks@mandelametro.gov.za