I was reading all the articles in the Benoni City Times (Thursday, November 19), in which people were complaining about the municipality not fixing water leaks.
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I have my two cents worth to add.
We run a campus in Warwick Street, Airfield, where the water meter on the pavement has been leaking.
I reported it for the first time on November 4, was given a reference number, then waited, as I was told someone would go and repair it.
A few days later, I phoned again, and was told that they would push the enquiry up the list and that it would definitely be seen to.
A few days later I phoned again, when nobody had been there to repair the leak and was told by the chap at the municipality that nobody would be going out to fix the leak, as the municipality hadn’t renewed their contract with the outside company that did the repairs for the municipality, and that they didn’t know when this was going to happen — if at all.
Like all the other readers, my complaint is: surely, during this water crisis in our country, something should be done by the people responsible?
We have tried to tighten the valve on the meter, but, if anything goes wrong we are responsible because we are fiddling with municipality property.
Are we, in good conscience, supposed to just allow the water to be wasted?
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