Parts of Johannesburg are facing water shortages after power outages last week curbed supplies by the main distributor. Photo: Unsplash
Water shortages hit Johannesburg after power outages and heat wave
Parts of Johannesburg are facing water shortages after power outages last week curbed supplies by the main distributor.
Parts of Johannesburg are facing water shortages after power outages last week curbed supplies by the main distributor. Photo: Unsplash
Parts of Johannesburg are facing water shortages after power outages last week curbed supplies by the main distributor and because of increased demand thanks to an ongoing heat wave.
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According to Bloomberg, reservoirs across South Africa’s economic hub are either too shallow for water to be pumped to towers, or at critically low levels, Johannesburg Water said in a statement on its Twitter account on Tuesday.
Johannesburg temperatures rose to 35 degrees Celsius
Supplies from Rand Water, the region’s main distributor, have been reduced because of electricity blackouts, it added.
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Two Johannesburg hospitals – the Rahima Moosa and Helen Joseph facilities – are using mobile tankers to obtain water, it said.
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“Johannesburg Water requests customers reduce consumption, only using water for human and household needs, which will significantly assist” in the recovery of the affected systems, it said.
Temperatures in Johannesburg rose to 35 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, and 38 degrees Celsius in Pretoria, according to the South African Weather Service.
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