Saturday 23 August's water outage has left many residences annoyed and queuing at the springs for water.
Saturday 23 August's water outage has left many residences annoyed and queuing at the springs for water.
While the water outage is a town-wide problem, Rhodes University has a number of policies in place for when the water goes out.
The University was informed on Friday 22 August that pumps were experiencing an electrical supply problem which could negatively impact the levels of water in the reservoirs.
All this information was shared with the staff and the students of the university.
Zamuxolo Matiwana, Communications Officer at Rhodes shared the following information with Grocotts.
1. Bottled drinking water (2 litres per day) is provided to students in affected residences
2. Water is provided for the flushing of toilets
3. Additional staff are provided to ensure the ablution areas are kept hygienically clean
4. Toilet seat sanitizer is provided
5. Hygiene wet-wipes or waterless hand sanitizer is provided
6. Water tanks outside the affected residences are filled on a rotation basis using water tankers
7. Residences without water are “twinned” with residences which do have water for the purposes of ablutions and laundry
8. An Emergency Water Action Team (EWAT) convenes during outages to manage the outage situation on campus
