Hope flows for Hammanskraal residents
Hammanskraal residents who have been relying on tankers for water have expressed excitement at Tshwane’s R253 million cash injection to refurbish the overworked Rooiwal Water Treatment Plant.
Mayor Steven Mokgalapa on Friday officially handed the plant over to contractors to begin the rehabilitation process of the plant, which cleans most of the City’s sewage water.
Fears of possible contaminated water saw residents opt to use water brought in trucks instead of the piped water available in their yards.
Locals who were fetching water in containers from trucks yesterday said the treatment plant’s rehabilitation was crucial.
Most of the residents said they could not wait for the two-year rehabilitation process to start to yield results so they could go back to fetching water in their own yards.
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