INWONERS van die perdeskoen- gedeelte van Graaff-Reinet het nie doekies omgedraai tydens \u2018n droogtebewusmakingsveldtog wat deur die departement van water en sanitasie nie op die dorp aangebied is nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die veldtog het dalk anders uitge-speel as wat munisipale en departementele amptenare gehoop het, want inwoners het min belangstelling getoon in die kleurvolle waterbespa-ringspamflette wat uitgedeel is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hulle het eerder antwoorde gesoek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018n Kennelik uitgeputte raadslid Luthando Mandla is afgevaardig om die Beyers Naud\u00e9 plaaslike munisipaliteit se departement van beplanning en ingeneurswese te verteenwoordig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk is doodmoeg want ons ry tot laatnag met munisipale voertuie water aan. Inwoners se frustrasie-vlakke is hoog, wat te verstane is, maar nou word ons trokdrywers onderwerp aan verbale aanvalle \u2013 dis nogal demoraliserend,\u201d s\u00ea Mandla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel inwoners Mandla en munisipale trokdrywers bedank het vir hul volgehoue pogings, was hulle dit eens dat hulle nie met net n\u00f3g \u2019n vergadering tevrede gaan wees nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAl die inligting wat ons vandag gehoor het, het ons reeds al die vorige vergaderings gehoor,\u201d het Hento Davids, voorsitter van die plaaslike besigheidskamer ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns soek nie meer praatjies en vergaderings nie, ons soek aksie en antwoorde.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018n Ontredderde Liz Buisman van die Graaff-Reinet belastingbetalers-vereniging (GRRPA), s\u00ea sy kan nie verstaan waarom die departement en munisipaliteit n\u00f3\u00fa skielik met \u2019n droogteveldtog begin het nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns as GRRPA het die munisipaliteit reeds in 2017 versoek om \u2019n waterbesparingsveldtog van stapel te stuur. T\u00f3\u00e9 was die dam net 19% vol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn Junie 2018 het ek aan Ivor Berrington, bestuurder van beplanning en ingeneurswese, voorgestel dat ons inwoners op die hart druk om hul verbruik tot minder as 50 liter per dag af te bring.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maar volgens Buisman het Berrington slegs geantwoord \u201cons sal dit gebruik as dit nodig is.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van \u2019n munisipale veldtog het egter dadels gekom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTeen 50 liter per persoon per dag, sal die dorp se 40 000 inwoners \u2019n totaal van 2 megaliter per dag onttrek,\u201d het Gerald Buisman somme gemaak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs ons inwoners kon inlig om hierby te hou, sou dit beteken dat ons onmiddelik met \u2019n surplus water sit!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy het ook gewaarsku dat owerhede die lankmoedigheid van Graaff-Reinetters nie langer moet beproef nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPasop vir die \u2018miere\u2019,\u201d het Buisman ges\u00ea. \u201cMoet hulle nie kwaadmaak nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs h\u00falle die dag ontwaak en uit die nes peul, sal ons onluste h\u00ea soos in die 1970\u2019s en 80\u2019s!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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