Skipping water infrastructure maintenance will cause challenges larger than electricity crisis, ...

Many issues have been raised over Rand Water’s five-week extensive maintenance programme, following which many residents across Gauteng were left without water for days and weeks. Some are still facing supply challenges. However, Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister David Mahlobo suggests that not doing water infrastructure maintenance will lead to a situation that could be worse than the electricity crisis, which resulted in prolonged loadshedding.