Fire Hydrants

In the absence of answers from Ndlambe Municipality, private company Mphele Engineers has come forward to explain its use of municipal fire hydrants – it says it was to fight fires at the dump. A Mphele Engineers bakkie with a small tank…

Something never mentioned in the water crisis updates from Ndlambe Municipality is the use of fire hydrants to extract water to cart to other areas. Since early last year to very recently, water tankers were extracting water several times…

As Port Alfred reached day zero in its water crisis, the flow stopped to the high lying areas first, in Nemato, the East Bank, and Forest Downs and other parts of the West Bank. Municipal water tankers have been filling up from hydrants…