20/09/2022
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Moqhaka municipality has cut water supply to many townships for a week now. And on Moqhaka page, the spokesperson is telling the public that "the cause of interrupted water supply is caused by Eskom loadshedding".
However, Eskom's loadshedding is not implemented for 24 hours around the clock. So, this is where the lies from Moqhaka municipality manifest themselves.
In-between the hours when loadshedding is alternated to other places over the country, the municipality has a window period of ±6hours that can be utilized to use Eskom's electricity to operate pressure machines that help to supply the water over all their municipality jurisdiction areas, but they don't do that, and this reflects negligence on their service delivery.
If the community can have access to electricity for 6 hours between loadshedding intervals, this means that even the municipality can also have access to that electricity, and there is no excuse to blame loadshedding as a reason to cut water supply to communities.