With a sip from a polystyrene cup, filled with water from the newly completed St George’s Park Wellfield Project, municipal water and sanitation senior director Barry Martin smacked his lips and said there was no need for further speeches.
Nelson Mandela Bay’s drought crisis joint operating centre has opted to reduce water abstractions to the allocated levels which will lead to outages in some areas in an effort to preserve the resource.
There were joyous moments, tears, and some logistical difficulties as the first day of the 2023 school year kicked off in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.
The first in a string of new Nelson Mandela Bay well fields has been completed and is pushing through 4.8 megalitres of groundwater a day to alleviate the strain on the metro’s parched western dams.