Residents of Tshwane, Emfuleni and Midvaal to experience water outages as Rand Water completes maintenance

JOHANNESBURG - Residents of Tshwane, Emfuleni and Midvaal will be the first to feel the impact of planned maintenance work by Rand Water.

The water utility will roll out a series of projects from Thursday until 21 July, which will see reduced pressure and taps run dry in some parts.

In Tshwane, there will be a complete water outage for four and a half days while work is done on its Mapleton system. 

The work being done on the system includes the replacement of infrastructure and the repair of old pipes. 

The project is part of the winter period maintenance of Rand Water's systems in Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga and Free State. 

Speaking at a media briefing on Tuesday, Rand Water chief operating officer, Mahlomola Mehlo, said the areas that would be impacted were in the east of Tshwane. 

"In the City of Tshwane, we have two separate systems that supply, we have Mapleton and Palmiet. Palmiet supplies more to the west of Tshwane, Atteridgeville, Soshanguve and Mabopane and those areas will not be impacted by line one."