03 Apr 2020

Serowe Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) station manager, Ms Dothodzo Chalashika, says the corporation is re-connecting standpipes that were disconnected due to non-payments of bills.

She was speaking during Serowe Sub-district Emergency Committee meeting recently, where she explained that re-connections were being instituted whether or not customers had paid their outstanding bills.

The initiative, she said, was in response to the corona-virus messages of personal hygiene as the first line measure of prevention, adding that this health crisis affected them directly and therefore the plan was to provide Batswana with water to further help protect themselves.

Ms Chalashika also revealed that a team would be on standby to figure out any water shortage problems during the lock-down to get water as expected and requested various departments to assist them with standby water bowsers during the lockdown period. 

She noted that WUC took cue from President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi’s recent public announcement to halt the disconnections.

Residents had been worried that water shortage could undermine efforts to keep the deadly virus at bay.

A resident, Mr Themba Morakaladi said in an interview that water shortage left many ordinary Batswana in areas around Serowe who could not afford the sanitizer, to be exposed to the risk of contracting the killer virus.

Mr Morakaladi was spotted by BOPA washing clothes with rain water he had harvested the previous night. ends