@Our_DA Member of Parliament & Spokesperson on the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Water and Sanitation. https://teapawt.org/t.co/m7ScbJhMAE
Johannesburg, Gauteng.
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Today I put this directly to the Deputy President in Parliament:
If the same worst-affected communities in Johannesburg, such as #Melville, are still going without water for days on end, if critical projects are under threat because contractors are not being paid, and if Johannesburg Water still sits with hundreds of millions in overdue creditors, what difference is government’s intervention actually making?
#WaterCrisis #FixDryTaps
1/5 🚰 ETHEKWINI: OVER 500 MILLION LITRES LOST EVERY DAY.
That's the estimated drinking water lost through physical failures in the metro's water system — the equivalent of over 120 litres for every resident, every day.
4/5 eThekwini needs an urgent, measurable programme of leak repairs, pipe replacement, pressure management and reservoir maintenance.
Sources: DWS Platform for a Water Secure eThekwini dashboard (Sept 2026); Stats SA Census 2022.
I've posted a long and detailed post on the history of Tshwane's water woes inspired by a challenge on a previous post.
This is the most important image.
Under the DA and Brink, things were getting better.
Under the current ASA/ANC coalition and Moya, things are getting worse.
12/13 Tshwane cannot afford another five years of accelerating infrastructure decay under unstable coalitions.
The #DA was turning the trend around; the current coalition has reversed it.
On 4 November, vote DA on BOTH ballots to rebuild the capital’s water network.
13/13 SOURCES:
DWS Gauteng SDG 6 report (Jan 2022); City of Tshwane water-loss and quarterly reports (2024–25); DWS Gauteng Dashboard (30 Sept 2026, July data).
City reports: tshwane.gov.za/?page_id=6816