City of Tshwane mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya in one of the Tshwane water tanker in Mamelodi east photos supplied
The City of Tshwane Municipality Coalition Government has launched a Water Stabilisation Plan and has commissioner 15 new Municipal water tankers to restore reliable supply of water and reduce reliance on outsourced services.
According to CoT Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya, Tshwane operates one of the largest and most complex Municipal water systems in South Africa.
“This includes 660 km of bulk pipelines, more than 10 000 km of reticulation network, 80 pump sations and more than 150 reservoirs and towers,” said the Mayor.
“This is pressure-driven system that requires constant balance between supply and demand and when that balance is lost the system does not fail uniformly and high-lying and distant areas lose supply first and recovery takes longer there,” she said.
She said ageing infrastructure, declining maintenance and chronic under-investment have left key parts of the network unstable.
“Bulk supplyinterruptions,contamination, power disruptions and vandalism have further compounded these challenges,” said the Mayor.
For Mayor Dr Nasiphi Moya’s full speech please see attached document.
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