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LEVEL 2 WATER RESTRICTIONS

– WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Rand Water implemented WHAT STAGE 2 WATER all need to consider our situation and ensure
restrictions to conserve RESTRICTIONS MEAN: that we use water efficiently. It starts in the
home.
No irrigation or watering of gardens with a
water after reservoir levels hosepipe or irrigation systems. In and around your house or
dropped. No using of a hosepipe to clean driveways or business
patios. • Turn the tap off between washing your
he drop in Gauteng’s reservoir levels face, brushing your teeth or shaving.
prompted Rand Water to implement water No washing of vehicles with a hosepipe. • Taking a five-minute shower a day instead
Trestrictions in mid-October. Residents of a bath will use a third of the water that
were urged to reduce their consumption so that No filling or topping up of swimming pools you’d use bathing – and save you up to
reservoirs and towers that were critically low in or water features. 400 litres a week.
water could be replenished. • Showering can use up to 20 litres of water
The scorching heat has arrived, and so has the per minute.
The utility implemented these restrictions to need for abundant water. This is the season • If you prefer to bath, do not fill up the
help conserve our precious water resources. when water is top of mind. People try various bathtub. Taking a bath can use between
Water levels dropped due to demand, ways of saving it during summer because it is 80 and 150 litres of water per bath.
consumption and delayed rains. Load shedding used for so many activities, from cooking to • Use low-flow showerheads, dual-flush
by Eskom also hampered the pumping of much- washing to gardening. toilet mechanisms and water-efficient
needed water in Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and washing machines.
Tshwane, and in some areas taps had already The cold, hard fact is that fresh water is a • Kettles should not be filled to the brim but
run dry. scarce resource the world over. This is why we with just enough water for your needs.

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