Johannesburg’s western suburbs prepare for 33-hour water cut

Johannesburg’s western suburbs will tomorrow get a taste of Cape Town’s possible future, when the taps run dry for up to 33 hours.

The move comes after Rand Water announced a planned outage in order to conduct maintenance on the district’s primary pipelines.

According to Randburg Sun, the outage was originally penned for mid-August but was postponed. However, the outage — now planned for Tuesday 5 September from 8am — will still affect around 23 suburbs in the Randburg area.

REMINDER: Some Jhb residents to be affected by 33-hour #watercut from 5 Sept while @Rand_Water repairs water line @JHBWater ^NS pic.twitter.com/wnEnSvTnTJ

— City of Joburg (@CityofJoburgZA) September 4, 2017

The City of Joburg will station a number of water tankers across the city to compensate for the outage.

It also advises users to sign up to JHB Water’s updates via SMS.

#savewater Subscribe to the @JHBWater SMS notification service for alerts on planned or unplanned service interruptions ^NB pic.twitter.com/KESqiQ5EUA

— City of Joburg (@CityofJoburgZA) September 4, 2017

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