This is how "water-shifting" will work

[Romeo_RX]

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The Naicker family has made billions leasing water tankers and yellow plant to government, despite being indicted for collusion in 2015. It has taken eight years to bring the case to the Competition Tribunal.

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[The_MAC]

Get your water out the ground tested so you know what you are working with. That will dictate any needed filtering/ water enhancements needed

I filter through a filter as it pumps into a 10kl tank . Effectively filters down to 1 micron.
There is a 1.2kw jet pump that pumps to the house from the tank. Comes on when needed. It has a preasure tank attached to minimise pump activation.
That goes through a 3 stage filter ( 1micron/carbon filter / activated carbon ) to the house. Got presure reducers inline so that the house piping is not over preasured.

All the pumps needed are on my solar system so Eskom is not an issue

Who did you use for the drilling? Busy getting quotes from "A1" and "Hardrock Drilling"..

 

[Next Thing]

Who did you use for the drilling? Busy getting quotes from "A1" and "Hardrock Drilling"..

My borehole was sunk 40+ years ago. My neigbours was a company based in gauteng. Can ask if you really need it

My tanks and filtering was done by myself over a year. Some school fees included

 

[The_MAC]

My borehole was sunk 40+ years ago. My neigbours was a company based in gauteng. Can ask if you really need it

My tanks and filtering was done by myself over a year. Some school fees included

Thanks, thought it was recent

 

[Next Thing]

Thanks, thought it was recent

My neighbors was recent

 

[gotaway]

Below is how watershedding works here. Water isn‘t pumped into the reservoirs anymore, but directly into the pipe system in town. Obviously nothing gets pumped during loadshedding / electricity outages.

People with tanks connected to the municipal supply suck up a lot(most?) of the water, lowering pressure and supply to other people.

Imperative to have a tank and even better to have a borehole

 

[MagNorthDigital]

Below is how watershedding works here. Water isn‘t pumped into the reservoirs anymore, but directly into the pipe system in town. Obviously nothing gets pumped during loadshedding / electricity outages.

People with tanks connected to the municipal supply suck up a lot(most?) of the water, lowering pressure and supply to other people.

Imperative to have a tank and even better to have a borehole

This is not living. This is fighting for survival. And what the hell is a No. 4?!

 

[Oldfut]

This is not living. This is fighting for survival. And what the hell is a No. 4?!

Not really; it is the way it works in the third world. Be thankful there is some piped water; Harare suburbs you have a borehole or buy water from a tanker.

 

[gotaway]

This is not living. This is fighting for survival. And what the hell is a No. 4?!

The numbers are the various valves, feeding different areas of town.The saddest part is that town water is pumped from the Vaal river, using a canal and sump hole. From there it goes to sedimentation dams, etc.
The canal is mostly not maintained, so water feeds slowly into the sump hole, which gets overrun by sediment as well. The sedimentation dams stop during loadshedding, so after every loadshedding turn (We also have internal electricity load rotation during times of high demand) the sedimentation dams need to be backwashed, etc...

As @Oldfut says, borehole. And , yes there are people selling water to refill JoJo tanks.

Civil societies/businesses installed a few JoJo tanks on the pavements at properties where people were willing to refill them at their own cost from their boreholes.

I switched my place over to borehole water (Even added an extra stop valve to the municipal supply - do not trust theirs) about 5 years ago.
I'm providing water to neighbours to one side as well. Neighbours on other side(s) have their own boreholes.

 

[Flanders]

This is not living. This is fighting for survival. And what the hell is a No. 4?!

It's two No.2s piled together with nowhere to go because there's no water.

 

[MagNorthDigital]

The numbers are the various valves, feeding different areas of town.The saddest part is that town water is pumped from the Vaal river, using a canal and sump hole. From there it goes to sedimentation dams, etc.
The canal is mostly not maintained, so water feeds slowly into the sump hole, which gets overrun by sediment as well. The sedimentation dams stop during loadshedding, so after every loadshedding turn (We also have internal electricity load rotation during times of high demand) the sedimentation dams need to be backwashed, etc...

As @Oldfut says, borehole. And , yes there are people selling water to refill JoJo tanks.

Civil societies/businesses installed a few JoJo tanks on the pavements at properties where people were willing to refill them at their own cost from their boreholes.

I switched my place over to borehole water (Even added an extra stop valve to the municipal supply - do not trust theirs) about 5 years ago.
I'm providing water to neighbours to one side as well. Neighbours on other side(s) have their own boreholes.

I can only hope that the sediment issue is resolved at some point, other than that, I wish you guys good rains and even better fortune. Both for you and the people making it work, around you.

 

[Budza]

I don’t think that will be as common as people just installing jojo tanks and storing as much water as possible. Which is the bigger future issue

What's the issue with water storage? Something similar to LS and inverters + strain on grid when they all charge when LS ends?

 

[Flanders]

Below is how watershedding works here. Water isn‘t pumped into the reservoirs anymore, but directly into the pipe system in town. Obviously nothing gets pumped during loadshedding / electricity outages.

People with tanks connected to the municipal supply suck up a lot(most?) of the water, lowering pressure and supply to other people.

Imperative to have a tank and even better to have a borehole

NGWATHE TECHNICAL?

Haven't the special children been at the wheel of the school bus for long enough? Heaven help us.

 

[bwana]

What's the issue with water storage? Something similar to LS and inverters + strain on grid when they all charge when LS ends?

Refilling the storage tanks puts an additional strain on the reticulation system and considering it often cannot handle existing demands it could make things worse. Plus lower lying areas often have an inherent priority over higher areas so the family refilling their tanks might be doing so at the expense of others.

That's all moot if you're re/filling your tanks with rainwater or boreholes.

 

[gotaway]

NGWATHE TECHNICAL?

Haven't the special children been at the wheel of the school bus for long enough? Heaven help us.

The speshul bus is full of very spechul, entitled, but clueless wannabe troughwatchers . All occupying positions, but none are doing a job

 

[Oldfut]

Refilling the storage tanks puts an additional strain on the reticulation system and considering it often cannot handle existing demands it could make things worse. Plus lower lying areas often have an inherent priority over higher areas so the family refilling their tanks might be doing so at the expense of others.

That's all moot if you're re/filling your tanks with rainwater or boreholes.

That is like the Eskom whine about inverters and battery chargers and filling a tank from municipal water still guarantees the payment to the municipality. It is either that or buy water (and pay for your municipal connection) which seems silly (or only fill when everyone has water which is practically impossible). The tank system rules in many parts of SA like the Transkei where water supply is erratic.

It is in my future for sure.

 

[bwana]

That is like the Eskom whine about inverters and battery chargers and filling a tank from municipal water still guarantees the payment to the municipality. It is either that or buy water (and pay for your municipal connection) which seems silly (or only fill when everyone has water which is practically impossible). The tank system rules in many parts of SA like the Transkei where water supply is erratic.

It is in my future for sure.

Water is cheap so paying for a municipal connection is no hardship. Storing and more importantly pumping/circulating your own water isn't free. You also need to make accommodations for loadshedding.

Also, it's really easy to postpone refilling your tanks until you've given the system time to recover, but people won't because when it comes to water they tend to panic.

 

[gotaway]

Water is cheap so paying for a municipal connection is no hardship. Storing and more importantly pumping/circulating your own water isn't free. You also need to make accommodations for loadshedding.

Also, it's really easy to postpone refilling your tanks until you've given the system time to recover, but people won't because when it comes to water they tend to panic.

Agreed, the municipal water connection charge is a small price to pay. The biggest gripe is the estimates they put through every month, and then reverse every six months or so when they get around to do actual readings.

Postponing is a collective act. It only takes one selfish person / group for that postponement to become a non-event. This is Africa after all, so "each for him/herself and the devil for the hindmost" comes to mind.

 

[Oldfut]

Water is cheap so paying for a municipal connection is no hardship. Storing and more importantly pumping/circulating your own water isn't free. You also need to make accommodations for loadshedding.

Also, it's really easy to postpone refilling your tanks until you've given the system time to recover, but people won't because when it comes to water they tend to panic.

Seriously; do you live in SA, or at least aware of life outside of city suburbs? Water is cheap until you don't have it at all. SA is third world, cistern storage is common in the third world. Simple automated systems where municipal water, such as it is, keeps buffer storage topped up is the way to go; no panic, just reality. Africa is not for sissies.

 

[bwana]

Seriously; do you live in SA, or at least aware of life outside of city suburbs?

Yeah. I live in a small suburb outside of PE. You may not be aware of it but there is finally light at the end of our eight+ year drought so we're pretty well versed on water issues.

Water is cheap until you don't have it at all.

It falls free from the sky. I'd call that pretty cheap. All you need is a roof, some gutters, and something to store it in. I myself currently have 12Kl of harvested rain water and have relied on it completely for roughly 40% of the last two years and partially for the other 60%.

SA is third world, cistern storage is common in the third world.

I've sent a lot of time in the third world, outside of SA. Some of it helping to promote availability in remote areas of Uganda and some documenting issues in the slums of Nairobi.

Simple automated systems where municipal water, such as it is, keeps buffer storage topped up is the way to go; no panic, just reality.

In some areas it's quite an equitable system, in others it isn't. A lot of depends on topography and distribution.

Africa is not for sissies.

Indeed. Even SA