Water disruptions have hit Kariega as a result of the ongoing drought and dwindling dam levels.This comes as the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is urging all residents to reduce consumption immediately.
About 1.5-million litres of water are being lost every month from a burst pipe in the Moeggesukkel informal settlement in Bethelsdorp in parched Nelson Mandela Bay and, according to the residents, that is the way it has been for nearly a year, despite multiple attempts to alert the metro.
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.
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