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The Eastern Cape’s biggest metro, Nelson Mandela Bay, is in a “perfect storm”, facing possible future waves of the Covid-19 pandemic, a huge water crisis and constant interruptions caused by ageing electricity infrastructure, the president of the region’s business chamber, Dr Andrew Muir, said this week.
Water to about one-third of the metro is predicted to run out if it doesn’t rain soon, and Muir said this was partly due to service delivery failures over the past decade – it was as much a leadership crisis as it was a water crisis.
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality last week called on all residents and businesses to urgently conserve water as surface water in the metro’s two biggest dams, the Kouga Dam and the Impofu Dam, is predicted to run out if the region does not receive good rainfall in the next few months.