{"id":83391,"date":"2015-03-13T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/83391\/plans-to-prevent-water-crisis\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T07:15:22","slug":"plans-to-prevent-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/13\/plans-to-prevent-water-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to prevent water crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Water recently presented their plan for the future to the portfolio committee on water and sanitation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The plan includes:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Firstly, the company plans to move away from one electricity supplier (either Eskom or local municipalities) per site\/pump stations.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This will mean that Rand Water is not fully dependent on Eskom and\/or the municipalities, which has resulted in no energy security and insufficient back-up supply in the past.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is to investigate an alternate power supply in the medium term and to get off the grid except as back-up in the long term.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>This means that Rand Water wants an independent power supplier per site.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the plan focuses on the continuing increase in the demand for water, which has resulted in key infrastructure (water treatment plants, pump-sets, pipelines and reservoirs) not being able to be taken out of service for rehabilitation and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>This is also coupled with large amounts of water being lost due to leaking infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In the 2013\/14 financial year, municipalities spent R7.4-billion purchasing water, of which R2.6-b (34.98 per cent) went down the drain.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The suggested solution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Increase the one per cent investment to municipalities and increase budget allocation for demand management.<\/p>\n<p>Operational planning is conducted in silos, with no coordination between municipalities and no centralised control room.<\/p>\n<p>The solutions are to establish a Gauteng water infrastructure planning committee, as well as a centralised control room, where telemetry will be implemented on all critical reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>It has been reported that, in Ekurhuleni, there are no telemetry systems and sticks are being used to determine the capacity of reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p>The DA has welcomed the proposals suggested by Rand Water and urges the municipalities to also commit to the plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs it is, South Africa is in the top 30 of the world&#8217;s driest countries, out of a total of 194.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is criminal that we allow over a third of our water to go to waste,\u201d said Mike Waters, DA deputy chief whip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69351\/germiston-the-hardest-hit-by-water-supply-interuptions\/\" target=\"_blank\">When will the water normalise?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/69232\/metro-speaks-out-about-residents-water-woes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Many Germiston residents have been affected by the sudden interruption in the water supply.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='eccc48f72f7329f893a6c567d1977138'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DA welcomes Rand Water\u2019s 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