Ekurhuleni and the City of Johannesburg are both experiencing water outages due to what they call ‘unusually high consumption by users’.
This is of course mostly untrue and rather just another way for the current government to push its inefficiencies onto the consumer so as to avoid taking responsibility.
Yes its been hot and yes #rainmustfall, but it is not the lack of rain that is the problem. Why don’t we have this problem every year? Surely every summer water consumption goes up? So why now? Is it because we have had a couple of weeks of hot weather?
The metro will have you believe that it is the consumers’ demand on the system to blame, because we are pulling more water from the system than what they can push into. But what they are not saying is that this is because the pumps aren’t working, the pipes are collapsing, and the network is aged and failing.
But now once again the consumer is to blame. We must change our habits, to not put pressure on the system. Save water folks and please ignore the massive water leaks pouring fresh water into the storm water drains all over the place, no it’s up to you Mr. John Q Public, fix your leaks at home so that we the Metro can continue to waste this resource at a staggering rate.
You see this isn’t a surprise to some of us at council, actually we have been warning the ruling party for a number of years that this was going to happen. But of course it is understandable that they didn’t listen, because they were too busy finding ways to hide the fact that the city manager is employed illegally and too busy trying to hide his corruption charges to worry about a little thing like water.
That’s our problem not theirs, so long as we pay our bills to the city then why should they give a damn as to who we are and what we need?
