As the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in the Eastern Cape faces Day Zero once again, the City of Cape Town extends a helping hand. Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis made a public statement offering “Cape Town’s technical advice, assistance, and disaster management support”.
According to News24, the Nelson Mandela Bay metro is set to lose yet another water source as the Churchill Dam, that’s water levels are sitting at close to 8%, is set to run dry by Friday.
Together with Loerie, Kouga, and Goendal, the dam levels are at 11.94%. These dams supply water to the towns of Gqeberha, Kariega, Despatch, and Colchester.
“All South Africans share a sense of great concern about the current water crisis facing Nelson Mandela Bay and the prospect that the metro will run out of water before the end of June.
“On Friday, I wrote to the Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, Eugené Johnson, to offer Cape Town’s technical advice, assistance, and disaster management support,” announced Hill-Lewis.
Hill-Lewis continued to reflect back on Cape Town’s own Day Zero in 2018 and how “thankfully we avoided this, and we have learnt many valuable lessons from that crisis”.
“In the hope that there is still time to avoid the worst in Nelson Mandela Bay, the City of Cape Town would like to offer our help. We will gladly make a team of our Disaster Risk Management (DRM) officials, as well as technical and engineering teams, available to assist in whichever way possible,” Hill-Lewis concluded his statement.
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