{"id":32727,"date":"2021-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=54eb5efade4f77fd29c6aa435946225a"},"modified":"2021-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T00:00:00","slug":"magareng-protests-delay-r83-million-water-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/magareng-protests-delay-r83-million-water-project-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Magareng protests delay R83 million water project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Water and Sanitation has urged communities in the Magareng Local Municipality to allow the process of the construction and upgrading of Magareng Water Treatment Plant to be completed.<\/p>\n<p>Department spokesperson, Sputnik Ratau, said the department in the Northern Cape, in partnership with Magareng Local Municipality is currently implementing a R83 million water project in the Warrenton area.<\/p>\n<p>The project commenced in April 2020 and was scheduled to be completed in June 2021.<\/p>\n<p>However, due to community protests for various service delivery issues, including water shortages, the project has been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>The project includes upgrading the capacity of the 9 Megalitres per day (9ML\/day) water treatment plant to a 12ML\/day capacity.<\/p>\n<p>A new water reservoir is currently under construction as well as the installation of new flocculation channels and sedimentation tanks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe upgrade will improve water treatment and production processes to acceptable water quality standards in line with the South African National Standards (SANS241). The project will further reduce water losses from 33% to less than 10%, making available sufficient and sustainable water supply to the people of Magareng Local Municipality,\u201d Ratau said.<\/p>\n<p>The community is urged to allow the construction of the Water Treatment Plant to be completed, as \u201cthis will address the issue of water shortages and provide the much needed bulk water supply to the community\u201d. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: South African Government News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Water and Sanitation has urged communities in the Magareng Local Municipality to allow the process of the construction and upgrading of Magareng Water Treatment Plant to be completed.Department spokesperson, Sputnik Ratau, said the de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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