According to Rand Water, on 2 December the Vaal Dam was at 40,8 percent capacity. Department of Water spokesperson, Sputnik Ratau updates gives an update on the status of the dams, amid heavy Gauteng rainfall.
Team Cape Town, our collective water usage between now and May matters. Cape Town is not in a drought, and not heading to ‘Day Zero’. However, as we are in the early warning phase, the window to avoid water restrictions before November is...
Police fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at people protesting against water outages in Johannesburg. Protesters GroundUp spoke to said they had been without water for over four days and there had been intermittent water for weeks....
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has today opened five (5) sluice gates at the Vaal Dam at hourly intervals, from 10:00 until 13:00, to gradually increase water outflows up to approximately 700 cubic metres per second (mᵌ/s) from 60...