DA wants minister to intervene as Bay water shortage reaches crisis point

The DA has called on  human settlements, water and sanitation minister  Lindiwe Sisulu to urgently intervene to save Nelson Mandela Bay  before its dams run out of water.

According to the party’s spokesperson for infrastructure and engineering in the Bay, councillor Masixole Zinto,  on April 6 the combined capacity of the metro’s supply dams was at 23.77% and given the lack of rain forecast for the next six months, it was almost guaranteed that dam levels would drop dramatically...

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