PHUTI MOSOMANE
THE Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has appealed to all residents and businesses to drastically reduce their water consumption as the current 293 million litres per day (mld) water consumption is alarmingly high considering the allocated 230 million litres per day.
“The current 290 mld water usage puts the Metro over the limit by 61 mld.”
“This situation is putting serious strain on the water distribution system as the current demand is way above the allocated supply as per the Department of Water and Sanitation,” the municipality media manager Mthubanzi Mniki said on Monday.
Mniki said communities need to work together with the municipality to save water as “dam levels are extremely low.”
Last month the municipality took a difficult decision to decrease its extraction to the required allocation by the Department of Water and Sanitation, due to the constrained dam levels.
The current high consumption has left the
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