The water crisis which hit sections of the Pretoria has been resolved.

The City of Tshwane said on Thusrday it had completed the repairs to the Salvokop pipeline in the Fountains vicinity which burst a week ago.

The burst pipe left residents, institutions, businesses, hospitals and government entities in various areas in and around the CBD without water.

While the repair work was completed by 11am on Thursday and water was allowed back into the system from the Salvokop reservoir, the filling of the network will take time.

This is due to the fact that the pipeline had run completely dry.

This means that water would be gradually allowed into the grid. “The City’s engineers are monitoring the network and it is hoped that it would stabilise soon. Consumers in low-lying areas have been the first to receive water.

“This is due to the network needing to build up enough pressure, which will lead to high-lying areas also receiving water in a standard way.”

The installations followed a gushing pipe which had been problematic at the Salvokop reservoir and spurting volumes of water.

The damage forced the municipality to shut down the Salvokop reservoir in order to replace the damaged section of the huge pipe, leaving taps in a large chunk of the inner city dry.

An estimated 500000 people in the affected areas have been fetching water from the strategically positioned tankers since last Friday.