Residents assured Cape Town water safe to drink
City of Cape Town rejects online messages calling for water to be boiled before drinking saying extensive filtration and chemical treatment systems are in place
If you receive warnings that Cape Town’s dwindling water supply is unsafe‚ ignore them. The City of Cape Town insists that the messages — many of them being circulated on WhatsApp groups linked to schools — are false. One of the hoaxes says: "If you drink water out of the tap which is not boiled you can pick up serious tummy bugs and skin damages‚ so please alert people around you." The level of Cape Town’s main dams is expected to fall to around 20% when weekly measurements are taken on Monday and Xanthea Limberg‚ the mayoral committee member responsible for water‚ said: "While the last 10% of a dam’s volume is difficult to treat to acceptable standards‚ we have not yet reached this level. "Residents are assured that water undergoes extensive filtration as well as chemical treatment before it is pressure-fed into the reticulation system. Water quality is controlled at the treatment plants by the process controllers who perform tests on an hourly basis in the on-site labs in order t...
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