Sunday, February 15, 2026

Water Stoppages

I do not find a blog post on the Internet which describes the water stoppages in South Africa. More than a third of South African households experience this. I have experienced it. One really, really cannot live without water -- not in the home, not at work. Many enterprises collapse without water. Why not buy drums? These may be hard to afford. And how to purify the water? What about theft? Then, how to use the water? Often, a water truck races onto the scene. How do the elderly use this? What about the working class, who don't have the time? What about children, carrying great weights of water? OBSERVATION: It is degradation. The government now announced that it has laid criminal charges against some 20% of municipalities for their mismanagement of water.

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