Water authorities in Gauteng to implement "load-shifting"

Load-shifting 🤣

Seems oddly familar somehow. :unsure:

Time for these bottom-feeders to go already, ffs.
 
Lupus said:
Imagine they had just done in it 2 years ago, when it was only 220 billion
dailyinvestor.com

Joburg’s R15 billion water disaster

Africa's richest city is looking to tap investors for the billions it needs to halt its collapse.
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3 years ago 120 billion
businesstech.co.za

Another blow to Joburg – R120 billion needed

The City of Johannesburg continues to face large scale water outages - racking up a hefty bill.
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If you're a useless POS Commie, there's a lot of things you can get away with in Africa, most actually... but of all the possible things you can f**k up completely, water, food and tax collection are the two things you don't want to f**k up with when you're a professional thief and care about being able to spend your loot.

They went and did the thing. Now we're ALL in deep k@k.
 
The minister also stressed the urgency of dealing with high water losses. “There are too many pies that are gushing water,” he said. “They are not being replaced on time when the system is vulnerable.”,
Maybe toooo many fingers in the pies?
 
runspot said:
The minister also stressed the urgency of dealing with high water losses. “There are too many pies that are gushing water,” he said. “They are not being replaced on time when the system is vulnerable.”,
Maybe toooo many fingers in the pies?
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Fix those pies and than look at the pipes.
 
Flanders said:
Remember when they would howl about basic human rights...

We just want our dignity™
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The fact that things have become so bad that Dr. Pieter has been trending on black Twitta on and off will forever be the unironically funniest f**ing thing in my entire life.
Talk about things you thought you'd never see.
 
runspot said:
The minister also stressed the urgency of dealing with high water losses. “There are too many pies that are gushing water,” he said. “They are not being replaced on time when the system is vulnerable.”,
Maybe toooo many fingers in the pies?
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We first need a commission of inquiry so we know if it's a burger pie or a sausage pie.
 
Moosedrool said:
Does this have stages, levels, boss fights?
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Stages are reserved for load-shedding.
Levels are reserved for lockdowns.

Maybe phases can be assigned to load-shifting. Although 'phase' generally implies something that will pass.
 
My_King said:
With it being 2026 and now water issues, this "experiment" is not working.
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They might inadvertently create Mandela's windfarts without realizing it.
I know you have the guns, and I've been saying NO to RAM so I can add water backup... together we can be...

(Sing it!)

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My_King said:
I am looking at JoJo tanks now.
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I know it's seemingly one of the most boring and annoying things you can spend money on... but just stick with it.
This build I posted on the DIY thread last year was actually really lekker to put together and I loved every moment of it.

It has had unforseen benefits I didn't think about when installing it... knowing what I know now, I would install a water buffer/backup tank even if South Africa was actually Wakanda and water issues didn't exist.

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Benefits include:

- The geyser will never cook itself to death, nor do you ever have to deal with the water hammer and "glug-glug-pfffrt" sputtering after a water outage or municipal line repair. Your home's piping infrastructure will thank you.

- You can easily quantify usage and see what a difference small changes make (like not keeping the faucet running when applying soap and washing yourself under running water in the shower, seriously, I didn't realize I've been doing showering wrong my entire life until I tried optimising it)

- Water pressure is now completely consistent and adjustable because you're in complete control of it and can optimize to the point of millbars & watts.

- Built in automatic home leak detection with any decent VSD pump.

- Even if there is a water outage, what little water does come through the pipes and would usually do nothing or be irrelevant, is now being captured, every drop. Most of the time my tank is full even if there is an outage in the area.

- I'm ready for a hookup to the complex borehole as soon as things get really bad. (I'm actually glad about this announcement because this is going to accelerate what we already were planning for)... absolute worst case, if you had to you could transport water somehow and just pump it into the tank, no need to cart it around and completely bypass the delivery system you already have.

- Adding more tanks is a no-brainer once the basics are up (I did just 750L, small, but even if it covers my normal usage for almost a week, you can almost double that since psychologically, if you know the water is out you use way less of it subconciously while making no meaningful difference to your lifestyle).

- If ANC memba's ever take over your home when you're on holiday you just dump the Strychnine in the tank and wait a day or three. You can test & monitor the water more easily for potability. I'd like to start looking into realtime water quality monitoring built into my Home Assistant dashboard... why not? (it would also be nice to know when the illegal occupier/thief stops squirming after the've been dealt with)

- This is a tiny upside, but thought I'd mention it anyway. I have some house plants (Dracaena family) that are susceptible to chlorine etc. issues. Since using the tank their leaves are doing better because the water off-gasses outside in the tank before I use it.

The only downsides I've had with it:

- Water in the tank heats to ambient temperature over time and since I'm a tap drinker my Energade is more of a sweet-tea than a cool energy drink. (While writing this comment I realised, that probably means the geyser uses a little less energy for warming, or a lot less... this might actually me a non-trivial point I haven't considered measuring).

- If you're using the tank permanently without bypassing you're no longer using Municipal energy for water pressure, you're providing that energy yourself (good to keep in mind for solar installation scaling, not really an issue with proper brushless VSD pumps but obviously costs money... I'm addicted to the awesomeness of neodynium magnets and brushless motors so a no-brainer for me, you're looking at max about 300watts being used for real-time pumping on full tilt).

EDIT: Let me update my photo, I might be a hermit but I'd love some internet validation and likes of how cool my humble new Madagascar Palm (Pachypodium lamerei, on the left) goes with the tank installation... the wild lavender tree on the right smells nicer than Dlamini Zuma's kopdoek after a wash. It's a humble scene, but it's also many, many years of prediction, planning and long nights... I wasn't born in Joburg, but I sure was moulded in it.. even the arm boertjie is coming for you...

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Obviously, I gave up other potential indulgences to get this done, but what else would I have done if it wasn't for the f**ing ridiculous situation us Saffas keep finding ourselves in?... I get to moan about RAM prices and AI, then I sit outside and touch the wet grass next to the water tank system I had to learn to build.... because we're all f**ed...

Dis k@K, maarit naai.... Goyim out.

 
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After the solar comes the Jojo's. Water shedding we were warned years ago. Corrupt ANC cadres at their best.
 
These guys need to be voted out of local govt and never bee allowed to return
 
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