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The Chris Hani District Municipality said the organisation Gift of the Givers will assist with additional water provision in Komani, Queenstown, due to ongoing shortages.
The Municipality said the organisation has committed to bringing four water tankers and bottled water to help alleviate the impact of the water shortage.
The portfolio head for water services, Bongeka Nobuntu, said the trucks will ferry the water from their treatment works.
She said the ongoing water shortage is a result of the drastic decrease of the level of the Bonkolo Dam, which is now below the abstraction point, with the Waterdown Dam unable to meet full demand.
"We have put in place some interventions of rationing of the available water supply until the situation improves.
"Also, a total of 14 tankers have also been deployed to the affected wards which each ward allocated a dedicated truck. Also 40 additional JoJo tanks have also been sourced, and these have already been delivered," she said.
Nobuntu said these tanks will be placed in each ward so that they are easily accessible to the communities.
She said plans were also underway to drill additional boreholes to help augment the water supply into Berry Dam.
"CHDM partnership with the Gift of the Givers Foundation has been in existence since 2020 when the two institutions collaborated during Covid 19 pandemic, 2021 water shortage in Komani and 2022 floods where extensive support was received from the organisation," Nobuntu added.
