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Port Elizabeth Water Situation

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DOWN TO A TRICKLE: The intermittent water supply will continue for the next few days as the system recovers, according to the water and sanitation departmentImage: ISTOCK
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Water supply to parts of Nelson Mandela Bay stopped — again

After days of intermittent water supply to the city’s western and northern areas, residents were met with some relief on Monday morning, but only momentarily. The city has been struggling with water supply since last week as a result of…

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NATURAL SPRING: Residents gather at Ebrahim Soomar’s home in Malabar to collect water from a springImage: fredlin adriaan
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Malabar man shares water from natural spring with desperate residents

As most parts of Nelson Mandela Bay’s taps ran dry on Friday, queues snaked around a Malabar home where the owner was providing a little relief to parched residents from a natural spring on his premises. Ebrahim Soomar said the water came…

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URGENT SITUATION: Nelson Mandela Bay infrastructure and engineering portfolio head Mongameli Bobani, right, who is calling on residents to use water sparingly, visited the Motherwell booster pump station last week with water and sanitation director Barry MartinImage: WERNER HILLS
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Municipality asks Bay residents to ‘pray for rain’

Save water and pray for rain. That is the word from Nelson Mandela Bay infrastructure and engineering portfolio head Mongameli Bobani. The municipality said on Friday there were continued water disruptions in parts of the city due to the…

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