Water utility Rand Water’s extensive months-long maintenance from May to July was a necessary disruption to increase capacity ...

Says ageing infrastructure, municipal failures, and poor water-use habits are to blame, not the volume of water supplied.

Rand Water will reduce pumping from 15 to 18 July 2025, causing water outages across several Gauteng municipalities.

Rand Water's planned maintenance from July 15 to 18 will disrupt water supply across several Gauteng municipalities, prompting the deployment of water tankers to assist affected residents.

The utility said the claims are false and misleading, with traces in some rivers detected downstream of wastewater plants.

Johannesburg residents in certain areas should prepare for low pressure or no water as Rand Water replaces bulk meters on 30 ...

JOHANNESBURG - The City of Tshwane has confirmed that maintenance work at Rand Water's Hartebeeshoek Reservoir has been ...

A 1.3-gallon bottle of water sells for 25 rand ($1.30), an expensive exercise for most people in a country where over 32% of the population is unemployed. "We are really struggling," Moloi said.

However, Maroo said, “Rand Water systems are currently low but stable. We provide bulk potable water to 18 municipalities including Gauteng metros through several interlinked strategic reservoirs.

The long-awaited reorganisation and re-purposing of Emfuleni’s water and sanitation infrastructure and associated revenue management is a step closer to implementation after the local authority’s ...