By Akani Nkuna
Deputy President Paul Mashatile has raised concerns about the sources of water supplied by private tankers as the Bronkhorstspruit Water Treatment Works (BWTW) remains closed for cleaning and decontamination.
“We are quite concerned about private suppliers of water with water tankers, because we do not know where they get that water from. So, there will be an intervention to check those. But the city is supplying water in the meantime whilst this plant is attended to,” said Mashatile, who chairs the Water and Sanitation Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC).
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He was speaking to the media in Bronkhorstspruit on Monday following an oversight visit to the BWTW after more than 400 cases of gastrointestinal illness linked to the plant were reported in Tshwane in October.
A week earlier, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), the City
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