The Department of Water and Sanitation may decide to end water restrictions for summer rainfall areas in May‚ but for now they will remain in place. This is according to department deputy director-general Trevor Balzer‚ who addressed journalists on national dam levels at the Vaal Dam on Wednesday. Balzer said that this week the national levels were at 50.7%‚ which was an indication that week-on-week levels had risen only 1.9 percentage points. There had been an increase in water levels in all provinces‚ with the exception of the Western Cape‚ where levels were still falling‚ he said. This week‚ the Vaal Dam in Gauteng is 52.8% full‚ compared with 44.4% the previous week‚ but Balzer said the Vaal was a system made up of 14 dams that needed to be looked at together. The Vaal Dam system is sitting at 58.5%. "As a result of rain since January 9‚ we’ve gained 395-million cubic metres [across the system]. We’ve picked up more than 100-million cubic metres that ... was released from Sterkf...
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