Residents will be left high and dry after power failures in Nahoon and leaks at the uMzonyana treatment works caused water outages across the metro. In an official statement, Buffalo City Metro said they had begun throttling the water system so that “water can go around as wide as possible” on Friday afternoon.
While California is experiencing a record drought, driven in part by climate change, the initial spark for many wildfires often comes from utility equipment and power lines. And fire investigators are now looking into whether the utility company PG&E was behind the nation's largest fire so far this year. KQED's Lily Jamali reports.