All except the country’s struggling dams in the Cape provinces are on the path to recovery, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) said on Monday. "Over the past week…we have been on the upward trend," said department spokesman Sputnik Ratau, adding that the latest dam level figures were being finalised and would be released on Tuesday. "The only places that were struggling were the three Capes – Northern Cape‚ Eastern Cape and Western Cape. On the national average‚ we have been going up‚" he said. "Our national average is now almost 50%. This means‚ when you look at the national dam levels together‚ you would get that percentage of capacity. It was 49.3% on Monday last week. "Obviously, because the rains have fallen over the last couple of days, and also looking at the fact that the Vaal Dam is receiving water from Katse Dam in Lesotho as well as Sterkfontein Dam from the Free State‚ that has created a change in the kind of figures." In August‚ the DWS issued a government gaz...
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