One of the residents said, ‘Why don’t you jump in?’ I went to the local mine and got one of the environmental officers who came with a little machine that measures water.

He mentioned that per day, it is 1.3 million litres which has been lost over the past 33 days while we are facing drought.

Costing almost R100 000 to fix, the municipality doesn’t have the funds to fix the leakage:

They were there yesterday (Tuesday) to check the problem, however what we know is that they do not have funds to fix the pipe. I am still standing here and they have not fixed it. To fix the pipe, it needs a bowl that will cost the tax payers about R90 000. If they don’t do that the pipe will continue running fresh water to wastage.

Local Municipal spokesman Bheki Kubheka said the valve for the pipe was not available at their store – so the municipality is “currently acquiring a new one.”

At the moment, our water team is on site busy working on the problem.