Acts of crime lead to water supply interruption in Lethlabile

LETHLABILE – A group of criminals attacked security guards on sight, tightened them up before damaging and stealing components of the water supply infrastructure of the Lethlabile Elevated Reservoir. The components stolen include umong others, power cables, circuit breakers and the telemetry system sensors. As a result of the incident, numerous parts of Lethlabile, mostly high lying areas are currently without any water supply. The maintenance teams are on sight busy with repair works with the aim to restore full water supply in the soonest possible time. The Madibeng Municipality has in the meanwhile dispatched municipal water trucks to the affected areas to supply portable water in the interim.