Last Wednesday, November 16, in the middle of exams Germiston High School was left without a drop of water.<\/p>\n
The school immediately reported the matter to the metro\u2019s call centre and asked what had caused the outage.<\/p>
\u201cWe were first told that the reservoir that feeds the area had run dry, thus causing the water outage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next time we called to follow up on the progress we were told it was a burst pipe at Germiston Lake causing the outage and finally we were told the outage hadn\u2019t been reported.<\/p>
\u201cA different story each time we called,\u201d said a staff member of the school.<\/p>\n
The school staff grew more and more worried with each passing hour as students, teachers and staff were unable to use the school\u2019s bathrooms, or get water to drink.<\/p>\n
To combat the outage the school claimed they requested a tanker be sent to the school; their request, however, was refused.<\/p>\n
The GCN sent an urgent query to the metro to find out what the actual cause of the outage was and what areas had been left without water as a result.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe school was without water due to a burst pipe that happened inside the Germiston Lake property.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe school and the Germiston Golf Course were the only two properties affected by the outage,\u201d said Themba Gadebe, spokesman for the metro.<\/p>\n
The burst pipe was attended to on Friday, November 18, and water was restored.<\/p>\n
The metro claimed they received no request for a tanker from the school.<\/p>\n
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