Posted on 06/22/2023 9:34:32 PM PDT by george76
The peace of a normally tranquil suburban road near South Africa's capital, Pretoria, is being shattered by the sound of drilling.
These are not prospectors looking for a new source of the country's mineral wealth, but workers digging for an arguably more precious resource: water.
Private boreholes - like this one being excavated in Garsfontein - are springing up across the wealthier neighbourhoods in the country's economic heartland, where taps have been running dry.
"I am tired of not knowing when we will have water and when we won't," the frustrated homeowner says.
Having a borehole means we won't have to depend on the government so much, it's what's best for my family."
Much of the domestic water supply here depends on electricity to pump it from the source to the vast high plain on which the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria sit.
South Africa's recent electricity woes - with regular lengthy scheduled blackouts - have had a knock-on effect on the supply of water.
"All of our stations, they need electricity, they need power.
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Some days I don't have both water and electricity, and this can be for days at a time. It makes daily life insufferable,
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The lack of electricity has exacerbated issues created by poorly maintained infrastructure, which has led to vast leaks as well as sewage problems, and a supply of water that cannot meet demand.
Seventy million litres of treated, clean, drinkable water are lost every single day because of leaks that are endemic in the crumbling water system.
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because of corruption and theft.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Give it 20 years or so. Seems inevitable. We have plenty of examples in Europe. Czechoslovakia. Yugoslavia.
Best comment of the week! Bwahahahaha!
I was there for 3 weeks and found the nation to be confusing. We stayed for a week in at a Holiday Ibn where the Mabager was Black. The couple in the next room were Black.Taking our time we drove to Durban and stayed in a hotel that had the best accommodations and food that we’d anywhere. Blacks
and whites were observed at mealtimes.
“South African taps run dry after power shortages”
South Africa has made TREMENDOUS strides in their DEI over the past 30 years.
Black leadership shows their ability to lead and provide with their characteristic skill and caring. Coming to the US to a community near you...whites need not apply.
Wait til they find out that the new private wells need electric pumps to bring the water up, if there’s any depth at all.
Hand pumps will only get you so far. And they take a lot of work!
Must be tough having an electric car.
Yea, but at least those nasty white people aren’t running things any more. That’s all that really matters.
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So a functional society IS necessary? Triggered!
China is licking its chops to come to the rescue along with the establishment of a naval base.
Africans are VERY SLOW LEARNERS——
Zimbabwe used to produce 90% of items sold to other parts of Africa.
NOW—Zimbabwe IMPORTS 93% of what they use EVERY SINGLE DAY.
I remember the celebrations when commie thug Mendela was making his speech upon release. And oh how great it would be when Africans ran Africa again....
Africa is Africa because Africans. Africans enjoy living in violent squalor.
Free Nelson Mandela!
Good thing YT is living out in the squatter camps.
They simply need more money of our so they can confront the horrors of climate change.
The guy in the brown in front seems to be doing as well as NOLA man. Things must be going pretty well.
King Goodwill Zwelithin ka Bhekuzului, left, met in 1995 with President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, center, and the Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi. The king was the traditional leader of nearly 20 percent of South Africa’s population.
They should have gone with the Zulu King.
“I’ve Got the Power”…..(tap,tap). Testing. Is my mic working?
Chief Buthelezi was a good man, and would have been much better than Mandela.
South Africa and Jackson, Mississippi - what’s the common denominator to not being able to maintain infrastructure?
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