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RELATED LINKS: Quenching the thirst of the city BUDGET 2003: They bring clean water to your tap and dispose of sewerage coming from your home. Read more How Joburg plans to save that water The water that flows from your taps has travelled hundreds of kilometres to get to you - and somewhere along that convoluted route, as much as 40% of it is believed to leak away. Which sounds alarming, in a country accustomed to drought. But the same happens every day, in every city in the world - and Johannesburg, a city not created on a river, compares rather well. Read more

Residents urged to conserve water December 19, 2003 By Tammy O'Reilly ALTHOUGH much of the country is faced with an impending drought, residents of Johannesburg will not be faced with water restrictions just yet. Johannesburg Water spokesperson Jameel Chand said that "although there is no likelihood of water restrictions just yet" the City's water supplier did not want consumers to become complacent. "Water is a precious resource and we still urge people to conserve it," Chand said. According to Rand Water Board, the water supplier to Gauteng, Mpumalanga, North West and Free State, there was enough water in the Vaal and Sterkfontein dams to supply these areas for the next three years. Rand Water used approximately one percent of water per week from these dams. Currently the Vaal Dam was 48 percent full, which meant there was about a year's supply of water. Sterkfontein Dam was 98 percent full. According to Karl Lubout, water quality marketing manager for Rand Water, "this means there is actually three years supply of water" from both dams combined. Lubout added, however, that at this time last year the Vaal Dam was 76 percent full. Permission to use web site material Publishers may use material from this site free of charge, as long as: Credit is given to either the "City of Johannesburg website (www.joburg.org.za)" or to "Johannesburg News Agency (www.joburg.org.za)"; If the article is used online, a link is provided to the original article on this website; The name of the article's author is acknowledged; The webmaster is informed of how and where the material is used (fill in this brief online form). Johannesburg News Agency is operated by BIG Media at 011-484-1400 Print this Page E-mail this article to a friend Help using Joburg.org.za