By Liezl Human, GroundUp
Kakamas resident André Smith says the water pressure is so low he can place a bucket under a tap and walk to town. By the time he is back, “the bucket still isn’t full”, he says.
Residents in the semi-arid, Northern Cape Kai !Garib Local Municipality told GroundUp they frequently experience water outages or problems with water pressure.
“The water situation has not improved, it has worsened. And the quality of the water is concerning,” said Smith. “Now, the water has too much bleach in it.”
He says you can smell the chlorine in the water.
“If we struggle with water for a month, we must still pay our rates. Why must we pay for something we are not using?”
He said they had complained to the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). “We complained in December, January and February, while it was extremely hot. At
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