The upgrade of the Giyani Water Treatment Works (WTW) is 58% complete and is expected to be fully completed by the end of September 2014.
Solving Giyani’s water woes Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane told residents of Giyani in Limpopo that she has committed her department to resolving their perennial water woes by the end of September. In an address to the community of Greater Giyani Municipality, Mokonyane told residents that she had had enough of civil servants who gave her misleading progress reports about the state of water in Mopani District when thousands of local residents, including Modjadjiskloof and Tzaneen, did not have access to drinking water. Giyani WTW upgrade Giyani WTW abstracts raw water from Nsami Dam which is currently 66.76% full. There is a canal that conveys raw water from Middle Letaba Dam (53.26%). The canal has been suspended due to the upgrade that is taking place at Giyani Water Works. This WTW has a design capacity of 27 Ml/d and is currently producing 24Ml/d due to insufficient raw water supply as a result of suspended raw water canal. The scope of the project entails upgrading of the Giyani WTW from 30Ml/d to 36Ml/d which includes the following: • construction of a chemical dosing chamber • flocculation channels • one sedimentation tank• three sand filters
• one sludge handling lagoon • clear water contact tank • disinfection chamber • raising main from the pump station to the reservoir approximately 1km south east of the existing works. The columns for the pump station will be delivered on site by 16 August and the paving of the roads will be done by end of August 2014. Mokonyane appoints project manager “It cannot be that people have access to clean water in effluent suburbs while the people of Mopani don’t enjoy the same rights. You are equal citizens of this country and you have the right to access water as any other South African,” Mokonyane told residents. The minister appointed a designated project manager through Lepelle Water Board to take over all water related matters and the delivery thereof. She gave the task team until end of September 2014 to ensure that the affected communities have access to quality water. Mokonyane believes September will see the start of a new era for the supply of quality of water to the community.
