Chairperson says Rand Water does not implement planned or emergency water cuts without informing local municipalities, which relay the message to residents in affected areas.
She spoke at the Water and Sanitation Department’s press conference in Pretoria to address claims by the Democratic Alliance’s Solly Msimanga that the bulk water supplier is incompetent and fails to communicate adequately and supply water tankers to affected consumers.
At the party’s water campaign launch last week, Solly Msimanga accused the utility of failing to provide water tankers to areas affected by recent water outages that were caused by maintenance of water infrastructure.
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