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WATER-GUZZLING businesses and residents in Nelson Mandela Bay face the prospect of higher tariffs if they do not cut back on consumption.
The warning comes as the municipality tries to avert another water crisis.
The Department of Water Affairs has reduced the Bay’s water allocation from the Loerie, Churchill and Impofu dams by 10% because its demand for water has increased substantially, putting pressure on the dams.
The city was plunged into a crisis in 2009 when water levels in the main dams supplying the Bay dropped to about 30%.
Although the latest figures show the dams are still a long way off from such low levels, an analysis by the department shows the city is extracting about 30% more than its allocation of water. The latest dam figures are: The Churchill and Impofu dams are at a combined level of 83%; The Kouga-Loerie system is at a combined capacity of 85%; and The Groendal Dam is at 93%
http://www.peherald.com/news/article/17977
14 August 2013
Rochelle de Kock and Leonie Wagner
The warning comes as the municipality tries to avert another water crisis.
The Department of Water Affairs has reduced the Bay’s water allocation from the Loerie, Churchill and Impofu dams by 10% because its demand for water has increased substantially, putting pressure on the dams.
The city was plunged into a crisis in 2009 when water levels in the main dams supplying the Bay dropped to about 30%.
Although the latest figures show the dams are still a long way off from such low levels, an analysis by the department shows the city is extracting about 30% more than its allocation of water. The latest dam figures are: The Churchill and Impofu dams are at a combined level of 83%; The Kouga-Loerie system is at a combined capacity of 85%; and The Groendal Dam is at 93%
http://www.peherald.com/news/article/17977
14 August 2013
Rochelle de Kock and Leonie Wagner
