The first in a string of new Nelson Mandela Bay well fields has been completed and is pushing through 4.8 megalitres of groundwater a day to alleviate the strain on the metro’s parched western dams.
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, ANC, and water entity Amatola Water are getting huge backlash after it emerged that a massive water leak that has been running unfixed since November 2021, in the drought-stricken Gqeberha, has lost the metro 1.5 million litres of water a month.
Nelson Mandela Bay’s water crisis may have grabbed headlines around SA as Gift of the Givers drilled boreholes and residents prepared for day zero, but for the first time on Monday, President Cyril Ramaphosa finally came to see things for himself.