Mangaung Metro launches project to tackle water loss

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The Mangaung Metro Municipality in the Free State has launched a water project estimated to cost more than R40-million.

Municipal Mayor Gregory Nthatisi says they are currently losing 46.2 percent of their piped water through leakages.

He says the aim of the project is to reduce the water loss.

He adds that the project is aimed at preserving water, while responding to the management and control of non-venue water.

“We are now putting measures in place and one of the measures is quite critical is to address the pressure point where our bursting pipelines must be contained and controlled. This has to do with the upper and the lower line areas especially at the point where the water doesn’t get utilized that doesn’t stop the flow of water and you find that the pressure that comes with that turn to burst our pipes and we lose a lot of water. Services of a company to provide the pressure point in terms of controlling so they will be installing them across where our pressure points are based and that will help us to reduce the leakages.”