DESPITE numerous warnings and appeals to use water sparing the City of eThekwini still faces a water shortage scare.
Earlier today eThekwini Municipality’s Communications Head, Tozi Mthethwa, once again appealed to residents to implement water saving techniques in their daily activities.
“The current status of the Hazelmere dam level is sitting at 35.06 per cent and the water level is dropping consistently. Despite our appeal urging customers to save water, consumers have not heeded our call to conserve water in the predicament that we currently face,” he said in a press release to the public.
As a result the municipality has been forced to shut down certain reservoirs on the northern region.
Mthethwa also emphasised that the recent rainfall has had no positive impact on the level of Hazelmere dam.
This follows a previous water scare in June last year, when a suspension bridge in uMgeni collapsed, restricting water delivery to Durban North and surrounding areas.
The current impeding water crisis was announced in November last year, following the decline of the water level of the Hazelmere Dam as well as the Ugu’s Nungwane and EJ Smith dams. At the time the water levels were recorded at 43 and 35 per cent capacity.
Water restrictions were subsequently enforced in the North and South coasts.
