Residents, civil society groups and business leaders call for immediate action to fix the city’s collapsing water system
With the City of Johannesburg losing 40% of its water, the government has advised residents to get tanks and capture rain water to ease the burden
Ageing and a failure to maintain infrastructure are among the reasons so many people do not have clean water
The water shortage was caused by ‘an incident’ at the Eikenhof pump station, the bulk water supplier said
We have learned to live with sporadic electricity supply but South Africans will not be as kind to the government if our taps run dry
The water crisis has largely been caused by a power outage that affected the main pump station