Te midde van die o.19-w\u00eareldbeker-kriekettoernooi in Kimberley, ho\u00eb temperature \u00e9n in die dae dat \u2019n werksessie oor die stad se watersituasie plaasvind, het die stad min tot geen water gehad nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoewel die spreekwoordelike skrif lank reeds aan die muur is wat Kimberley se watersituasie betref, word daar nou eers in sommige kringe erken dat dit nie \u2019n \u201csituasie\u201d is nie, maar \u2019n krisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In talle woonbuurte was daar van Donderdagaand af geen water nie. Die spoegseltjie hier en tien druppels daar was te min om die dalende vlak van enige watertenk aan te vul, en diegene sonder \u2019n watertenk sou nie eens \u2019n 5 liter-emmer kon vul nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teen Dinsdagoggend was die enigste aksie in die waterpype van talle woonbuurte steeds die geroggel van lug. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daelange en onafgekondigde watertoevoeronderbrekings, met vaagheid oor die werklike rede daarvoor, is nie nuut nie. Redes wat wel genoem word, is soos altyd legio, met selfs \u2019n \u201chuman error\u201d as oorsaak genoem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In die werksessie is blykbaar hard en eerlik gepraat oor die Noord-Kaapse hoofstad se waterkrisis. \u2019n Teenwoordige het glo opgemerk dat daar nie s\u00f3 gepraat moet word nie, \u201cwant dit maak \u2019n mens net bang\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit was lank reeds tyd om bang te word oor Kimberley se waterkrisis; lank reeds tyd om te besef dat \u201cmodern, groeiend en suksesvol\u201d nie in dieselfde asem as \u201csonder water\u201d en vervalle infrastruktuur genoem kan word nie; lank reeds tyd om die menslike faktor by \u2019n krisis te erken. Daar is immers erken dat \u2019n ernstige gebrek aan instand\u00adhouding oor baie jare die rede is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tans word die R2,5 miljard wat aan die Sol Plaatje-munisipaliteit toegeken is om die waterstelsel oor die volgende jare op te knap, soos \u2019n towerstaf rondgeswaai \u2013 wat magiese toorkuns, of pure o\u00ebverblindery, tot gevolg kan h\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mag die gebieg, geraamtes wat uit die kas geval het, en bangwees wat in die werksessie beleef is, bydra dat mense in Kimberley \u2019n kraan kan oopdraai en dat helder water sterk daaruit kan vloei.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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