We Normalised Load Shedding – South Africa Cannot Normalise Water Shedding

For more than a decade, South Africans have learnt to live around an electricity system that could not always deliver consistently, adapting our routines, businesses and homes through load-shedding apps, generators, inverters, batteries and solar systems until infrastructure failure became woven into everyday life. We cannot allow the same pattern to take hold with water, particularly as phrases such as “water shedding”, “low reservoir levels”, “burst mains” and “water tankers” become increasingly familiar across communities. This article is written by Murray Crow, Managing Director, Kwikot.