Rand Water needs to burn

The Joker

The Joker

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Hey guys.

I am sure some of you have been affected by the water shortage in JHB, I've been without water now for exactly 1 week. I just got off the phone with the council and they advised me that I can expect my water to be back on Sunday or Monday next week....Now I'm sorry but this is fucking insanity.

So is there anything I can do about Rand Water and its incompetent retarded staff? I was thinking of getting a Faceboook group going for people wanting to sue them and then getting a lawsuit going.

Alternatively I was thinking of driving to their offices and kicking the shit out of the people in charge of this mess.
I am furious....:mad:
 
I'm seriously wondering how much of all this is "cable theft" and how much is just plain incompetence. I really think all these agencies are horribly under-skilled, under-prepared and incompetently run that things like cable theft is causing way more havoc than it should be.

Somehow if the Gautrain cables are stolen, that train is running within a day, yet when any municipality type of agency have this incident , resulting in half the province getting shut town, it takes them 2 weeks to just figure out what the hell happened.
 
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A week without water :eek: I can smell you from here "whistling:

No water here at the office in Midrand.
 
Our water has been out a couple of times in the last couple of weeks, fortunately it came back on that evening both times, but it's always when the kid is covered in dinner and needs a bath before bed. We had to drive all the way to my in-laws the first time.
 
I stay in Kyalami and our water goes off every day at 6 and is off the whole day, but does come back on at night, so not nearly as bad as you, but still not cool...
 
We haven't had water here in the NC for months (municipality is up to sh*t - is why). But, fortunately we have a farm with a working borehole, so that's how we get our water source.

Loading it in one tank on the bakkie and offloading it into a bigger tank here at home.
 
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We are without water on a regular basis because of theft and general incompetence. It's reached the point where most people that can afford it have a 5000 liter Jojo tank and pump installed between the municipal supply and the home.
 
Wow! After reading all the posts about poor service delivery I feel that this thread should be renamed: "Third World: Never Forget"
 
We've been warned for ages that the water infrastructure was going to collapse shortly after electricity. It is now happening.
 
Yeah some of these things really do make me wonder. e.g.

The standby generator, which was installed in November last year, did not kick in as it was faulty. “We did a number of tests on it and decided not to commission it because of the faults, and that is why it did not kick in.
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Seriously?
 
HavocXphere said:
Yeah some of these things really do make me wonder. e.g.


Seriously?
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The town where I live have gained a number of industries and businesses over the last few years. Suddenly our water supply started getting sporadic. No water for a day or two and then poor pressure for a day followed by normal water for a few days. Turns out the main pipeline connecting the town to the purification plant couldn't handle the extra demand. Basically, the pipe is too small. So they had to run the pumps 24/7 to keep up with demand. And then the main pump broke down. So when they wanted to switch to the back-up pumps, they found no back-ups were installed. Even though the original tender stipulated two back-up pumps and the full amount was paid.
 
AFAIK this isn't Rand Water's problem per se, but the guavamint. Numerous engineers warned of lack of infrastructure and the impact the booming economy in Gauteng would have on it - 15 years ago. They begged for budget to address infrastructure, but guess where the money went?

And now with Zuma's alleged forced signing of a multi-trillion Rand nuclear power deal with the Russians, we've might just have another arms deal on our hands.

Oh, and please don't kick asses at Rand Water's head office. My father in law works there and the people are generally very nice.
 
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Heard the same story on the sewerage side. Sure you can roll in high powered engineers but working with gov just wears them down....after hearing "eish" as an explanation 200 times they start to investigate emigrating in the hopes of experiencing less "eish" and more actual sewerage operations overseas. All of which leaves us with a lot of eish engineering and not a lot of high powered engineering. Wish I was making this up...and thats leaving out the juicy details.
 
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