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Three Blue Crane Route municipal towns in the Karoo are battling a deluge of sewage leaks, with the smell affecting critical service centres such as clinics.
As a metro team works flat out to repair a ruptured bulk water pipeline in Perseverance, the continuing fragility of Nelson Mandela Bay’s supply system and the stubbornly low level of the Bay’s biggest dam have come under the spotlight.
By now, every Nelson Mandela Bay resident would have experienced water outages, be it for a few hours or days at a time, as the reality of the city’s water scarcity takes hold.
A new dam will be built on the Gariep-Nooitgedacht supply line by the department of water and sanitation in September to improve Nelson Mandela Bay’s water security, according to Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane.