The campaign is done to ensure that the citizens save and use water responsibly.
Elizabeth Shabangu, one of the residents in Tsakane, reminded residents to save water to avoid the situation of living without water.
She reminded them about their experience of living without water in September last year when residents had no water for three days.
She explained that some of the residents had to hire the owner of a bakkie to fetch water for them from the surrounding townships.
Shabangu then encouraged residents to save each drop of water and also monitor their children when using water.
Themba Gadebe, the metro’s spokesman said last year’s glitches that resulted in almost a month long water supply interruption in parts of the province has posed a challenge to all municipalities to prepare themselves for such incidences.
He continued to say that the metro is working on a future water management plan to cater for such events.
The municipality will also pull out all the stops to ensure that more portable storage water reservoirs are built by the year 2021, in anticipation of future supply risks and population growth due to urbanization.
He said a 11ml reservoir at Masechaba View in Duduza estimated to cost R18-million and a 13ml reservoir in Dunnottar estimated to the cost of R23-m will be built.
“South Africa is by its nature a semi-dessert area and Gauteng was built far from natural dams in the chase for mining prosperity, which calls on everyone in the province and Ekurhuleni to use water responsibly and report any visible leakages,” said Gadebe.
