Residents in Nelson Mandela Bay may experience water outages of up to a week at a time as the city blocked supply to some reservoirs in order to redirect water to areas that have not had water for days. In a statement on Sunday morning, mayor Retief Odendaal said the recent power outages coupled to the fact that residents had not reduced consumption exacerbated the crisis.
Johannesburg Water says its infrastructure is performing better after the recent power failure at the Eikenhof pump station which led to water outages in most parts of the city.
dana. dana: thank you so much, jonathan. we ll keep in touch. sandra: after back-to-back water outages last year jackson, mississippi faces a water crisis that could last a decade. community groups like operation good are working to provide clean water while engineers try to fix the aging broken pipe systems in mississippi s capital city. fred is with operation good in mississippi and you have a good story to tell, sir, you stepped in and you try to help these folks out, many of which go through moments where they can t have showers, clean drinking water. it is brutal on some of these residents. so much so that residents and businesses have been fleeing. what is the problem and life like for people living through this? apparently we have an infrastructure problem where we have a water treatment plant that went down.
City teams will start their work in Burgundy Estate on Thursday night and move to Strand, Sonstral Heights, Vredekloof and Belami Ridge next week Tuesday.
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