Johannesburg Water Outages, Where to go when the taps run dry?

Johannesburg Water has updated the list of areas that will be affected by the Rand Water outage. The timings of the outage will begin at 19:00 on Tuesday and it will end at 05:00 on Friday. Johannesburg Water SOC Ltd (JW) is a municipal entity incorporated on 21 November 2000 and commenced business on 1 January 2001 as an independent company, with the city of Johannesburg (CoJ) as its sole shareholder. It supplies water and sanitation services to an area stretching from Orange Farm, in the south of Johannesburg to Midrand in the north, Roodepoort in the west, and Alexandra in the east. It operates in six regions with 10 network depots and six wastewater treatment plants. Joburg’s water rates are among the cleanest, safest, and healthiest in the world- and it is the task of Johannesburg Water to provide top-quality water and a world-class sanitation service to the city’s three million residents. There are 10957.88 kilometers of distribution pipes providing water across the city, and ensuring that the water provided remains world-class.

Johannesburg Water Outages

Areas will experience differing hours of very less amount of water or no supply of water, during the outage. On Tuesday evening, Rand Water’s 58-hour water shutdown is set to begin. Residents of Johannesburg not on the original list of areas affected should look at an updated Johannesburg Water version as it has appeared that more suburbs than first thought will be affected by the outage. The planned outage will give the bulk water supplier 58 hours to install two valves between A19 and B14 pipelines.

Johannesburg Water, which purchases water from Rand Water to dispense to the city, has already updated the list of areas it will be affected. During the outage, Johannesburg Water will try to make the water in its reserves last by reducing the water supply during downtime. These booster stations will be affected by the outage:

Daleside Booster Station – Areas under the Daleside Booster station will have a water supply reduced by 50 percent for 8 hours from 19:00 on Tuesday. The water supply would be fully recovered by 19:00 on Wednesday. Other affected areas include Orange Farm, Lakeside, etc.

Zwartkopjes Booster Station – Areas that fall under Zwartkopjes Booster Station will have a water supply reduced by 40 percent for 24 hours from 19:00 on Tuesday. The water supply should be fully recovered by 19:00 next week on Monday. Eikenhof Booster Station – Areas under the Eikenhof Booster station will have a water supply reduced by 24 percent for 58 hours from 19:00 on Tuesday. The water supply would be fully recovered by 19:00 on July 24.