{"id":62361,"date":"2024-02-02T17:17:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters"},"modified":"2024-02-02T17:53:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:53:19","slug":"groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters","title":{"rendered":"Groot Aub households to get individual water meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>CITY of Windhoek says it is replacing the water distribution network in Groot Aub and will start installing individual household and community prepaid meters to improve water supply to the reswidents of the rapidly expanding settlement.<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by CoW spokesperson Lydia Amutenya in an interview with Nampa on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter that CoW will construct a bigger reservoir,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a request by Groot Aub community leader Demetrio Beukes, to construct additional water reservoirs as he says the existing one, was initially constructed to cater for less than 10 000 people. He added that the growing population is making it difficult to have sufficient water for every household at the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest challenge we have is that when the reservoir was made it was only for 6 000 to 10 000 people. With the influx of people that small reservoir is now supplying 24 000 people and there will always be a shortage,\u201d Beukes told Nampa.<\/p>\n<p>Amutenya confirmed that approximately 24 000 people are currently living in Groot Aub, but explained that Groot Aub\u2019s water shortages are not linked to the reservoir\u2019s size.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not the reservoir that is too small to cater for more people, but it is the total safe yield (abstraction from existing boreholes) that is limited to providing water to 10 000 people. We can only provide a maximum of 60m3 (cubic metres) per hour from existing boreholes,\u201d Amutenya said.<\/p>\n<p>She said CoW currently has six boreholes serving the people of Groot Aub. The city council recently announced it had successfully drilled a 200-metre borehole in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform. Seven additional boreholes will be drilled, CoW announced, adding that this will put an end to the settlement\u2019s water shortages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat needs to happen is after they drill these new boreholes, they need to build another reservoir and strategically put up tanks in each location so that those tanks can provide water for each location,\u201d Beukes told Nampa. The City of Windhoek took over Groot Aub\u2019s administration in 2017 after the expansion of the city\u2019s boundaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. CITY of Windhoek says it is replacing the water distribution network in Groot Aub and will start installing individual household and community prepaid meters to improve water supply to the reswidents of the rapidly expanding settlement. This was confirmed by CoW spokesperson Lydia Amutenya in an interview with Nampa on Wednesday. \u201cAfter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-62361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Groot Aub households to get individual water meters - Namibia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"CITY of Windhoek says it is replacing the water distribution network in Groot Aub and will start installing individual h ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Groot Aub households to get individual water meters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"CITY of Windhoek says it is replacing the water distribution network in Groot Aub and will start installing individual h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Namibia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-02T17:17:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-02T17:53:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2024\/02\/sm_1706883643.624061.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"476\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Groot Aub households to get individual water meters\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-02T17:17:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-02T17:53:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters\"},\"wordCount\":363,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nambia\/sites\/29\/2024\/02\/sm_1706883643.624061.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"africa press\",\"Africa Press-Namibia\",\"namibia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/groot-aub-households-to-get-individual-water-meters\",\"name\":\"Groot Aub households to get individual water meters - 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