MOOKGOPHONG 10YEARS WATER SHORTAGE NEEDS IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION IN SOUTH AFRICA
For 10years now, Modimolle-Mookgophong Local Municipality has been suffering from water shortage which has seriously affected the municipality.
However, all that may soon come to an end after Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister, David Mahlobo visited the area to assess the water problems that have plagued the area for 10 years.
Mahlobo along with Modimolle District Municipality Mayor, Marilyn Van Baden spoke with managers of the tin mine outside Mookgophong, where they agreed to use the mine’s water resources to supply water to the embattled communities of the citrus town in Limpopo.
During the visit, they also discovered that there were three boreholes that could be used to pump water to Mookgophong for domestic and agricultural use. But with Water levels at the Frikkie Gyssel Dam been so low that will be impossible to achieve for now.
Mahlobo ordered an immediate mobilisation of technology and skills to facilitate a speedy solution to the perennial water problem after the visit.
He said that modern technology should be mobilised to make interim arrangements to pump water from the mine to local residents for domestic and agricultural use.
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