{"id":60289,"date":"2024-01-30T16:24:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipality-not-water-board-to-blame-for-ethekwini-dry-taps-says-da"},"modified":"2024-01-30T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:24:34","slug":"municipality-not-water-board-to-blame-for-ethekwini-dry-taps-says-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/municipality-not-water-board-to-blame-for-ethekwini-dry-taps-says-da","title":{"rendered":"Municipality, not water board, to blame for eThekwini dry taps, says DA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The DA says the uMngeni-uThukela Water (formerly Umgeni Water) board is not to blame for the eThekwini water crisis because it’s the municipality that is failing residents and businesses.<\/p>\n

The party, including its parliamentary representatives in the water and sanitation portfolio committee, on Tuesday, together with board officials, met residents and businesses in Durban.<\/p>\n

The meeting follows months of water cuts that have led to protests over the municipality\u2019s failure to supply paying customers with adequate water, sometimes for four days in a week.<\/p>\n

Businesses are also battling to function and have had to close their doors when there’s no water.DA KwaZulu-Natal leader Francois Rodgers laid the blame on the municipal political leadership and officials.<\/p>\n

\u201ceThekwini municipality is the failure, under the mayor Mxolisi Kaunda, the EFF on infrastructure and incompetent senior officials. What we saw today is that the water supply is here, but once it leaves here it’s not managed and people do not get water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

DA shadow minister for water and sanitation Leon Basson said he would call for a parliamentary probe into the crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a fruitful meeting with the water board, they indicated that they are sufficiently delivering water. The problem lies with the metro. The metro cannot supply people with water. There are maintenance problems. There are 40% direct water losses in the system, and that is why people don’t have water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are taking this to parliament., We are going to request the portfolio committee to come and have meetings with the community.\u201dThe water woes are said to have begun with the floods, when pipes were washed away. Since then large parts of the city sometimes receive water intermittently, at times none at all.<\/p>\n

Stephen James, deputy shadow minister for water and sanitation, said there is no longer additional capacity from the water entity to provide water, adding that 40% technical water losses is \u201cbeyond serious, especially for a municipality the size of eThekwini\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s now time for real action to happen at eThekwini to ensure that a proper water supply is restored. And the good news is it can be restored \u2014 it just requires real focus, commitment from the necessary parties. We are going to do everything from a national perspective, the legislature and our councillors to ensure this gets resolved,\u201d he said.Bradley Singh, a DA constituency head, said he was frustrated with the city’s communication, and said they do not engage with the local representatives and there’s no feedback to explain the water cuts.<\/p>\n

The DA\u2019s visit to the water board follows protests over water outages for more than eight months in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

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