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- Authorities in South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Bay are racing to prevent taps from running dry.
“Day Zero”, when the water supply runs out, will see close to two million residents without water.
A prolonged drought and poor management of water infrastructure have been blamed for the crisis.
A strict water-saving regime has been implemented to try and help the town cope.
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Welcome to South Africa. The country thats been stripped naked by poor maintenance, corruption and cadre deployment. Family and friends get put into jobs they cannot do. Billions of taxpayers money that wasn't and still isn't used for maintenance and upgrades at municipalities, but forever lost in deep pockets.
Inderdaad die waarheid!
You should be thankful apartheid was destroyed, SA is less corrupt now.
@@Balla1527 Are you a bot?
@@TjakaErasmus
I feel like an fool...
Commented on this post some place else.
Yes this can only be a bot or not has no clue what is going on in SA.
@@Balla1527 Is that why they’re about to run out of water to drink? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I live in Port Elizabeth in Nelson Mandela Bay and I can assure all watching this video that the blame for this humanitarian crises lies fairly and squarely on the ruling party of South Africa and it’s extremely poor management and planning of infrastructure. It’s known worldwide for its State Capture corruption in every aspect of governance that has had zero accountability so far after 3 decades of power. The instability caused in our Metro municipality due to this avarice for power and greed that includes off-shoot political parties all fighting for power leaves no time and space for maintaining and planning long-term infrastructure with its dire consequences like this humanitarian crises. When Cape Town ,which a few short years back , faced a similar drought their different governance prevented this humanitarian crises happening because they have had a long term stable incorruptible governance by the Democratic Alliance political party and could therefore take the necessary steps long before day zero arrived and thus managed to prevent it . We have however not been as fortunate and none of us know how this humanitarian crises will end as it looks dire with zero solutions being offered by leadership except having the charity organization “Gift of The Givers” and Dr Imtiaz Sooliman , it’s founder and leader leading a humanitarian task team to fix over 3000 major water leaks and sinking boreholes where they can in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. As you can hear from this video absolutely nothing from our ANC Government is saying anything except conserve water LOL when there is nothing left to use or even waste for that matter ! I hope the world is truly aware of the true facts happening in SA and not the propaganda that is still comes from the media about current matters.
The government is also to blame for stage 6 load shedding. Soon they'll come to our houses and take the lighbulbs out to sell for tik.
Well said
In other words , Whites can and will govern better in SA. It would be pretty ironic if a white person became president again and things dramatically change in the Country.
@@LuisRodriguez-tm1ld no, not really. Corruption is a culture in SA. It has nothing to do with race. The ANC mismanage the country, not because they're black, but because they're corrupt.
@@thomasdavey1513 really - they didn't build the existing dams, nuclear plants, and the electricity grid? It is about color if you compare 1995 and after, come on use your eyes. It's not racist to point out blacks can't manage a country. You could always send me a link to a country that is prosperous run by blacks. I don't think there is anything that can be done about it however we just have to watch the decline accelerate. I do feel sorry for the kids, they deserve better.
2 million people almost without water? citizens need to ask their leaders some serious questions
They could have our leaders then they would be in the shit.
I know right? The leaders should make it rain more often...
@@nbgoodiscore1303 no excuse for broken pipes
@@nbgoodiscore1303 it’s ok, us Canadians are paying a carbon tax so that will make it all better. Personally I wasted a few hundred litres of water in our pool today, and used a lot of natural gas to heat said water. Since I am forced to pay a carbon tax I know that all of our behaviour is carbon natural. You’re welcome SA.
Just look at the support they gave Zuma despite him openly being corrupt.
The problem is that people don't want to admit that the people they support are responsible for the problems they face and are literally willing to die rather than admit that
Well, at least the ANC managed to change the town's name... Priorities Priorities...
And they are proud of it, because that's all they can do.
Lack of rain, yes, but more so corruption, maladministration, general incompetence to maintain and upgrade existing systems have led us to this point, so much so that the majority of sewage and water purification plants, not to mention the failing electrical grid are on the pbrink of collapse.
Yes you are so right there, the government are to blame ,oh how wonderful SA has progressed ,not
At least it's a better place to be than apartheid SA and less corruption.
@@Balla1527 the country is heading for civil war. Violence against white South Africans is increasing. White owned farms are under attack. Radicals in Parliament want land redistribution without compensation. My neighbours came from South Africa, the country is as divided as ever.
no different to anywhere else in the world.. literally. California has this problem for years... what's the excuse there?
Fact is: There is NO WATER.
@@Balla1527 Bot?
South Africa was one of the most advanced countries in Africa. What happened? Well, we all know what happened . The same thing that happened in Zimbabwe etc
What happened in Zimbabwe?
@@lu881 He is just trying to dogwhistle the other racists dont worry
Exactly!!!
@@lu881 are you from Sweden?
@@louisevanderlinde8590 no. Are from Apartheid South Africa?
Broken underground lines are actually a huuuuuge problem. Sometimes it takes weeks to find out that there even is a leak. Afterwards you have to locate it and that proves to be the hardest part. As she said millions and millions of Liters are lost each day due to broken underground lines.
Where do they go if they're lost?
@@ghsense2626 accidental irrigation
Destroying the natural ecosystem for generations, with no plan of regeneration. Fixing leaks, desalination or digging more wells won't help refill the rivers or regrow forests. If the veins(streams), arteries(rivers)and lungs ( trees) have already died then there is not much hope for the organism (earth)
I agree, but the problem with your statement is that these leaks have been going on for the last 20 years in which the ANC has been in power. I think by now they could have found the leak and fixed it."
@@daledevernon56 Some of the leaks were traced all the way to Dubai; now they have to re-nationalize them.
Nearly 30 years on, thanks to mass looting and realising that all money set aside for maintenance of a country, was better off in Government officials pockets (If it aint broke). But it's not only water thats an issue. Infrastructure is collapsing on all sides as they, 'the government', now wealthy beyond comprehension, have achieved their goals In a manner similar to that of how Zimbabwe ended up where it did, and all at the expense of the peoples livelihoods.
South africa is the next zimbabwe
Well said
We should all not take our waters for granted and focus our development on water technology.
i also think it's also partly due to global warming which is exacerbating the issue. in additon, that place has always been very arid so this makes the effects even worse. No water development can fix this if there's no rain to replenish the water.
They take it for granted every time they blame climate change and any other blame. They should get out there and try and sorting their greenhouse affect. Planting trees would be a great start.
@@BabuskaDoll true. Maybe I'm alittle naive, because this is my field. But I am optimistic that there are some solutions in landscape development. It is possible to change the landscape and terrain to capture waters. Yes without rain it's futile. Maybe by using water the right way it's possible to create a new water cycle?
@@BabuskaDoll we can desalinize water nearly indefinitely. Of course, at a huge ecological cost. But that's exactly what we're going to wind up doing
@@bogeyonanostrilhair9568 planting trees is regions that never had a lot of trees isn't a solution. Its a great way to use up tons of water though.
How South Africa going from bad to worse. So sad.
It couldn't get any worse than apartheid let's be fair now.
In the future war will be fought because of Water.....
Already happening Egypt and Ethiopia very soon
The future is now!
US VP kamala harris already said the exact words few months ago
@@openmind2161 do not compare me with that beach
it has begun! Few months back we were told that gas was found in South Africa. Now South Africa is going through a water crisis? Our water supply will be shut for 3 months soon? I don't have much to say about the cultists but if they do succeed killing us, the rest of Africa must learn from this series on my channel.
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Too much in-fighting and fighting between political parties in Council. Eastern Province has always faced a drought problem; that is why the National Party construcetd the Orange-Fish River scheme in the 70's. Current ANC government should have been updating and expanding the scheme.
Corruption is the main problem....then crime
The Gift of the Givers are the best, these guys are really working hard
*Gift of the Givers. Amazing organisation.
Keep voting ANC, they will solve all the problems they make....
Exactly
If you are related to this citizen, hide his id on voting day, I'll pay you
Our government takes there own sweet time to do alot of things ,and let's not even mention the corruption
To do a lot of things? Let me correct that for you - "to do absolutely nothing"
There is corruption all over the world, SA is not unique in this respect. It's likely to do with the big corps and banks in SA that are corrupt.
I always thought desalting sea water was the future for our water source. But even that creates waste that harmful to our environment. Scary that not many are taking the water shortage problem more seriously.
Perth in western Australia relies mainly on desalination. The "waste" is just seawater that is more salty than usual. It does no harm if it is spread out and diluted in the ocean. That takes extra pumping energy. If you just dump it near the desal plant then it kills all the marine life. Of course you also need to spend money on wind turbines and solar panels to power the pumps. It's not a cheap solution but the reality is that Perth ran out of natural water sources decades ago. We also rely on cleaning waste water and then filtering it through an underground aquifer system. It's a lot of work and investment to maintain all of this but there is no other choice. Perth is a growing city and rainfall gets less reliable every decade that passes.
Always had that in mind since elementary but if it were given the greelight it would have to be executed sustainably, considering aquatic life too.
@@dalemanolas5994 Yes, I was thinking the same. It's all explained on the BOM and water corporation websites. It is amazing how so few people know or think about how precarious the S/W climate is. Fortunately, the WA government is not in denial and is also planning a wind farm near to the third desalination plant. As for the desal, of course, it's still seawater, just too strong and needs to be spread about. Fortunately, there is plenty of scope for that in the Indian Ocean.
Yet another victory for the ANC
Hoping things get better soon
Tongaat also has no water, yet Hazelmere dam is full.
Gift of the Givers to the rescue once again! 👏💝🇿🇦
Wish they ran the country👍
The lack of human foresight is our doom.
“The water is gone. Hey, maybe we should fix the 1/3 we are losing? Sure next year”.
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You’d think fixing the leaks would be a priority, but I’m sure the local government would prefer to exasperate the water issue by allowing the wastage of water.
not poking holes here, wouldn't exacerbate be the more appropriate word?
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Lake mead in USA is almost dry too
"4 years ago Cape town went through this" - Qheberha should have started building desalination plants then already....the watershortage problem started then already.
They really made a huge shit hole out of that place!
I remember warnings way back in the 1980's that this sort of event would occur due to climate change.
Wake up. Humans maybe speeding up climate, but climate change will continue even if humans disappeared today. It's the earths natural lifecycle, just like the ice age and every other climate change before human stood foot on earth. These weather disasters is down to the earths greenhouse affect. Africa should start planting millions of trees for a start. what have they even been doing with all those quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, and decillion of money from the rest of the world in all these years?
Remember in the 1970s when they told us we would be in a new ice age by now, or the ice caps would have melted by 2020, or we all would have starved due to overpopulation...
@@thetriggeringofthesnowflak725 The world is actually showing it now quite drastically. There were also not many people around back then than there is now and scientists all over the world are pointing it out - which they don't really need to if you actually open your eyes.
@@archdruid5468 Feel free to turn off your electricity and live in the woods because you are creating climate change. Bye
Nie veel met klimaat te doen nie... Die eintlike probleem is onvermoë, korrupsie, swak bestuur en die algehele opset van wanorde in SA wat wel plekname kan verander maar hoegenaamd niks positief kan skep nie!
where have I seen this before
It's been going on for 34 years you would have thought they would have sorted it out
That's all because of white supremacy and RACISM.. 👀🤣🤣🤣
Over consumption, unsustainable methods of farming, inadequate recycling, pollution and climate change...I also think overpopulation needs to be added to this conversation.
The religious vermin won't allow that
Exactly.. But common sense and self control isn't part of that culture 👀
The country is going to shit. The national energy company is going busy too... The government needs to start looking after the people
Thieves don't look after anyone or thing but themselves. It is never going to change.
@@archdruid5468 yeah I know such a shame. Lots of potential for everyone to grow. 😔😘
@@archdruid5468 why do people elect thieves?
@@mw5727 don't know about Africa, but elections aren't fair in each single country in the world. And as long as African countries are a 3d world countries, I bet their elections are falsified or just don't make any difference whether you choose this or that.
@@mw5727 I guess you don't and have never lived in such countries.
The camera man had to actually sit the rig down at a tap, and slowly allow water to drip out, just so that he could get that shot.
Yeah dude. Sucks. He probably had to shrink himself to so that he doesn't cover the shot. So much effort went into that shot
He could have tried to tighten the tap, if it was dripping.
Side note...
It is not a brass tap as that would have been stollen for the scrap value.
Important news right here. Scary stuff. South Africa has handled it before, but we never know how long it will go on for again.
The town is Port Elizabeth.
Because of all of the same issues of management and maintenance, the UK is alarmingly close to a similar problem.
The maintenance standards might be slipping but the UK will be fine, it literally rains for like 9 months of the year now so there will always be water. Delivering that water effectively is where the problems might occur
three and half million people added to the population in the last ten years through immigration has something to do with it as well.
source?
Water companies are held to massive standards when it comes to leakage so I know we aren’t anywhere near this
We have Oxford and Cambridge Universitiy Scientists etc who will develop desalination of Sea technologies; and Nuclear Fussion. Before Britian pioneered the Industrial Revolution; and now will pioneer the Green Technologies Revolution.
I feel like south africa is always running out of water these days
South Africa is running out of everything these days. Viva anc.
South Africa has experienced it's wettest year on record with higher than average rainfall and severe floods. Nelson Mandela Bay has been one of the worst run metro areas in SA for over a decade, this is purely a result of neglect, mismanagement and absolute fraud by the ruling ANC.
South Africa is vast. You talking nonsense. PE did not get above average rain. It is inland which experienced above average rainfall. Even Cape Town is getting under average rainfall at the moment
You definitely don't live in PE. There's been very little rain. This area is drought stricken. Do your research.
@@felvr705 I'm not from South Africa, but it seems that Cape Town had some major floods in the last few weeks (at least according to the news I just checked)
Of course South Africa is vast, but you need to look at the entire watershed/rain bassins of the rivers that fill up the drinking water reservoirs, not just rain above the city you want to analyse.
Some regions of South Africa are currently in drought condition, but I'm pretty sure that the main problem is all the water wasted either by the lack of maintenance of infrastructures or from overconsumption of water for multiple uses.
I never mentioned that PE got above average rainfall in my comment, I said SA. I was actually referring to poor water management or actually the neglect of management that had caused this. This is more of a man made disaster than just a drought that only showed how poorly the country is run. Good water management would divert water from full dams to the areas running dry but that's just too much to expect from your local provider. Fingers off the trigger folks I actually am sympathizing with the people affected by this.
More accurately - Port Elizabeth.
The government spends more money on Town name changes than actual modern day upkeep.
The ANC is FAR more detrimental to the livelihood of South Africa than climate change, I can guarantee you that.
Fun fact, there is a flag pole that flies the South African flag in Port Elizabeth that apparently costs tax payers R200 000 p/a to fly. ($12 000 / £10 000) which is more important than infrastructure that provides basic human rights services. More rain water is wasted because of the lack of upkeep than what is actually being provided to the dams and treatment plants.
breaks my heart to see this. but in every video i ever see of them filling up bottles they waste so much.
And next time this residents vote ANC again . ANC stands for
Absolute Notorious Crooks
South Africa’s State Capture corruption by the ruling ANC government appointed politicians and allies has cost South Africa a whopping R500 Trillion with zero assets recovered years since it happened !!!!
How do they have better teeth than British people?
Because they don't have the food to consume to build the bacteria~
@KingDoom They look well fed to me. Just that they look after their teeth - cleaning teeth
Things look whiter when put against a dark back ground….. like skin.
What kinda question is that. Maybe you ask why the British don't take care abt their teeth
@KingDoom or they are better at taking care of their teeth
Nature hits back.
Los Angeles Lake Meade...
@Jay Dee No that is not why... The megadrought currently choking the western United States is the worst drought in the region in more than 1,000 years. It's having an enormous impact across many states and on several major reservoirs including Lake Mead, a water source for millions of people in the West...
But yet apparently "liFe iS A gIfT".
This is the beginning of everything
What do they do now they can't blame the white man? 😏🙄
Sad reality!
These countries with high populations need to have smaller families or this problem will get worse. Protection first. Too many people needing too little resources. Have less children!
Start from town planning...work communities and the administration contributions to develop government supporting stimulus or roll-out...
And don't forget the Navi smartphones...
So now Nelson Mandela Bay is a town and not a city!
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead!
This makes me happy
Oh how low South Africa has fallen
Glad to hear you managed changing the name of the Town, before this surprising catastrophy turned up! Well done 👍🏻
In our enlightened time, we all know words are SOO important 😁
Interesting facts
In the background of this video, the 2010 soccer stadium can be seen. Such a waste of public money, money that should have been put to better use.
We have need donating money since i was 5 and im now 37! I think its time we gave up help Africa and lets them sort it themselves
God bless u all
Keep growing
Pray to God
Water will come soon ,
Use boore well , try to develop boore well
We should pray for the safety for the families.
BLABLABLA Try something called contraception while you're busy preaching and praying, and notice the difference 👀😉🤣
Tell the rest of failing Africa about your mind blowing experience! ✌🏻😉 Thank me later 🤷🏼
There is a dire need for repairs to be done on leaking water mains in Siuth Africa. Why are the authorities draging their feed on this issue.
Meanwhile American Arms manufacturers are working 24/7.
Some parts of Johannesburg have no water too, plus we have the energy crisis (load shedding) where our power gets cut off at set times on a schedule daily. So at times they don't have power or water.
We should figure out what the problem is
*Port Elizabeth
*Ebhayi
Who is Joseph? Works for the city council? Interesting, they only showed the poor people in this clip (and the gentleman from the NGO), the very people who has voted for this government. Maybe interview a view people who voted for the opposition and who are paying the taxes. Just a thought...
I also live in Port Elizabeth South Africa.
I collect rainwater in tanks which costs we have had to add as well as the rates and taxes from the metro. So we pay double🙄
Without the cadre deployment and all the corruption we could have had a dam up and running which would have negated this day zero.
By the way I lose my electricity 3 times a day two hours each time for loadshedding.
The government have hallowed out all the infrastructure for day to day living.
I am sure Mr N. Mandela did not want this for South Africa.
Watch what your governments are doing especially with petrol and gas then when that’s buggered they will start on your water
Good luck
The only time time Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Municipality received a clean audit from the Auditor General was in the financial year of 2012/2013 which was the only year that the Democratic Alliance political party lead our metro in all these years. It was also the political party that has governed the Western Cape Province and the Cape Town Metro Municipality for the last 3 decades and managed to avert their water crises through very good leadership.
I bless the rains down in Africaaaaaa
And flood happens as water could not be Stored in specific area
Their not the only ones..
Same here in USA. Water is becoming a commodity
Oh no
Dang it
i feel for these folks but I'm really perplexed by how most of the vids that I watch where there is a place with an extreme water shortage I see folks filling up containers and spilling what looks like half of the water on the ground. Funnels are not rocket science level technology.
Let’s watch you fill and carry a five gallon bucket. Smart mouth
@@Coconutsin Considering your reply you seemed to have missed the point of my post. I mentioned nothing about the difficulty of filling and carrying a 5 gallon bucket. What I was referring to was the videos where there is water scarcity to the point of it being a life or death emergency making the water extremely valuable... I see individuals trying to fill up bottles from a tap and spilling said precious resource all over the ground in the process. If they were filling a "bucket" I imagine there would be no difficulty at all in filling it without spilling the water. But since I mentioned the use of a "funnel" it would be more than obvious I wasn't talking about filling and carrying a 5 gallon bucket, but talking about filling up a bottle. Much like the ones in this video. So please take your childish name calling attitude and go sit in the quiet corner. Its not needed here.
Terrible, horrific, and well understood for a hard decade or more- nothing to be done. 🦖☄️
1:07 LoL is everyone spilling more water than they pour inside the bottles?
Also Flint Michigan ;)
probably
So much money to covid, ukrain, e.t.c but everybody forgot about our poorest ... sad
You can't drink money
Their problem
What?! I don't believe it.
Just kidding
Sounds a lot like Las Vegas.
Last time I saw this is in South Africa a major draught and no rain caused major water shortages and at the same time South Africa had issue or issues against the state of Israel. Something to wonder about……
The eastern cape has been a drought stricken province even under the white minority government .Go speak nonsense to someone else
What are you talking about? South Africa and Israel were tight🤞During apartheid.
use water sparingly but shows clip of leaky tap, sad
Horrible, but they might try to fill things w/o spilling half of it.
Another drought in Africa and in South Africa
Before this month there's flood in South Africa
Climate are changing drastically within few weeks
Dubai is in the middle of the desert and it has 3 million people, but they don't run out of water. This is clearly a case of mismanagement. South Africa should invest in salt water treatment or even drag a piece of ice from Antarctica.
Oh dear, we need to send them some water!!
Us Canadians are also facing the same problem. theres just no more clean water
Did Yoggy shit in your pond...🤣🙄
Honest Jake Zuma has a couple of billion dollars tucked away, perhaps he could buy a few bottles of water for the people? Also, funny how this never happened when the place was called Port Elizabeth.
The naming rights affected the water system somehow ?
😢
Omg it is so simple, if you don't have water just dig, dig until you dig something, and when you dig something and it is not water just look if you can sell it, if not dig further.
Its not something special when the water level is low
I remember they told us cape town will run out of water like 5 years ago. what happened to that story?
They had good rains which broke their drought.
@@lailanagdee8501 so it was much ado about zilch? the way it was being framed back then, i expected cape town to be a desert wasteland by 2020
We should grow as much trees as possible and try decreasing the deforestation of trees and building rain harvesting pits would be useful otherwise future will be devastating for us humans if our behaviour is the same for the nature ....
How would trees help dont they just consume water
@@maalikserebryakov they hold the water table under the ground
@@maalikserebryakov trees reduce evaporation. slow evaporation creates new clouds for rain.
@@maalikserebryakov water table and humidity. Trees also cool down communities
Too late already
Headline? Town? It is a city larger than Birmingham.
Punjab is alarmingly close to this situation. Watch Final Assault documentary film to know more. ❤️❤️❤️
how sad, its a shame it's not possible to ship rain over from the UK.
What’s that sound 0:26
*_"Gqeberha"_*
That's the click sound the "q" makes in that word.
That's the name of the city.
@@lu881 そうなんすか！ この独特な音を出せる記者もかっこいいよねぇ | do appreciate your informative knowledge
Such a shame how our people still lives 🥺
Ist save to visit SA these days?
Or this crisis will affect tourism ?
Everyone in the world should have some sort of rain barrels for when it does rain. Water management world-wide is a mess.
For much of the world, that would be a drop in the bucket compared to overall water use. Far too many people live in regions that should have never had a high population of water thirsty mammals. Collect enough rain for personal use, and you hurt the local ecology that already gets limited water. It's a bandaid that will eventually result in people not being able to live there at all either
@@veganpotterthevegan It's not meant to solve everything, but ANY little thing HELPS.
Will stick with the Umbrella where I live, it’s July and it’s still shocking 🤦♂️
@@winstoncharles2712 I understand, but short-term thinking is not going to help you nor the world.
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