Water availability charge debate At the MS Teams virtual open council meeting last Wednesday (August 18), the Democratic Alliance, the official opposition at the council, issued a notice to the meeting that the water availability charge…
Repair our water resources or get private institutions to get the job done. That is the message agricultural union TLU SA wants to send the Department of Water and Sanitation and the government with a new campaign about water. According…
Port Alfred’s water situation shows no signs of improving yet, although we are a few days away from the first phase seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant going online, according to the last update sent by the municipality. Water supply…
Readers may have noticed that Ndlambe Municipality frequently fails to respond to media queries. This is most glaring and concerning when we cover issues of importance to the whole town, such as aspects of the water crisis and costly…
DIRTY WATER: Ray Berman stands with 20l of water he had just collected at the Atherstone Road water tanks on Wednesday morning. He told TotT he had been to all of the water tanks in town on Tuesday but they were all dry. “I can’t even…
Ndlambe Municipality has assured Port Alfred residents that the tapwater is safe to drink. At a media briefing on Thursday, community protection services director Nombulelo Booysen-Willy said water from the water treatment works tested a…
Ndlambe Municipality held a media briefing on Thursday about the state of water in Port Alfred. Infrastructural development director Noluthando Vithi-Masiza spoke about water quality, particularly the discoloration – which she said was…
Municipal spokesman Cecil Mbolekwa said: “The municipality discovered that there are traces of colour in our water supply. The municipality embarked on an investigation to get to the root cause of this. “The contamination has been caused…
On Saturday March 23, Talk of the Town went to look at the state of the balancing dam that serves Port Alfred, which is the main storage facility between the Sarel Hayward Dam at Waters Meeting near Bathurst and the water treatment works…
The long-awaited water results are now available on the Ndlambe website under ‘Notices”. www.ndlambe.gov.za –> Notice Board –> Notices Check them out.
