A number of areas will be without water from Friday 4 November 2022. Photo: iStock
Several areas in the city of Johannesburg will be without water for at least thirty hours.
This comes after Rand Water announced that urgent repairs need to completed due to a major burst on the A6 pipeline.
The pipeline supplies water from Vereeniging purification works to Zwartkopjes pumpstation.
Johannesburg Water said water will be isolated at 6pm on Friday.
“It’s estimated that the duration of the outage will be for 30 hours. Rand Water and Johannesburg Water infrastructure (towers and reservoirs) will have maximum capacity during the shutdown.
“However, the following reservoirs, towers and direct feeds will be affected, should the water level drop to critical levels,” the utility said.
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Johannesburg Water has urged customers to store sufficient water for the duration of the outage.
“Further updates will be provided to customers during the course of the outage,” it said.
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