While the recent rainfall has provided a glimmer of hope for Nelson Mandela Bay, the challenges posed by climate change and infrastructure vulnerabilities persist.
The torrential rain at the weekend has broken Nelson Mandela Bay’s “meteorological drought” but, with its biggest dam, the Impofu, still sitting below 20%, the city is not yet out of the woods.
There is nothing wrong with the shower head the metro has simply ramped up its water-saving interventions with flow restrictors to limit lengthy, luxurious and sometimes lathering water wastage.
Metro prepares to tackle second Maitland leak By Guy Rogers - 04 August 2021
Natural dune seepage helped Nelson Mandela Bay engineers spot a second major leak on the Churchill/Impofu water supply line.
The team from Northfield Engineers, contracted by the metro, was repairing a leak a little lower down the pipeline at a site in the Maitland dunes on Friday when it spotted the second leak, Northfield project manager Abri du Toit said on Tuesday.
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