EThekwini mayor Mxolisi Kaunda yesterday outlined the municipality’s plans to deal with water outages affecting parts of the city.
Some of the outages are long-standing, with The Mercury reporting on Thursday that Trenance Park in Verulam had not had water for almost 100 days.
Kaunda said water supply challenges were being experienced in areas of Durban South, including Chatsworth, Shallcross, St Wendolins, Nagina, Northdene, Queensburgh, Welbedacht, uMlazi, Folweni, Nsimbini and Golokodo, and in areas of north Durban, including Ntuzuma, Inanda, Lindelani and KwaMashu, Verulam, Phoenix, Waterloo, Ottawa, Parkgate and Redcliffe, and oThongathi.
He said the water issues were due to, among other things, the damage caused by the recent floods, ageing infrastructure, and vandalism.
Kaunda said in the south, work will be done to fix the 24km Southern Aqueduct which…