Water shortages have become a very real reality for the residents of the neighbouring towns of Sundra, Rietkol and Eloff in Mpumalanga. The towns have been experiencing regular periods in which the water just stops flowing, for a year now . Local resident, Derek Bester, says water supply is unequal and sporadic with lower lying parts left without water for hours per day, and higher parts left without water for weeks at a time.
Residents are surviving using various means like sharing water from drill holes, getting water from farmers in the area and collecting water from their roofs. Those who don’t have any means of getting water on their own have to go to collective water tanks irregularly filled by the local ANC controlled municipality. The neighbourhood watch is delivering water to people without transport like old people in the towns. Afriforum is distributing 5 L cans containing drinking water at no cost.
Amanda Brandow of Sundra says that
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