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Not a drop to drink: Ndenzeni Njwenene, 82, fetches water for from a river near Mthatha. Despite millions being spent on a project in the ward, seven years later taps are still dry. Many municipalities in the Eastern Cape fail to provide potable water. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Myriad causes of SA’s water crisis

Ageing and a failure to maintain infrastructure are among the reasons so many people do not have clean water

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
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Closed valve not behind 12-day outage, says Rand Water

The water shortage was caused by ‘an incident’ at the Eikenhof pump station, the bulk water supplier said

  • Umamah Bakharia
2 min read
Rand Water’s Eikenhof pump station. (Papi Morake/Gallo Images)

Joburg Water says reservoirs are filling after parts of city go 10 days without water

The water crisis has largely been caused by a power outage that affected the main pump station

  • Umamah Bakharia
3 min read