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Joburg hospitals coping with water outage: department

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Joburg hospitals coping with water outage: department Hospitals in Johannesburg are not severely affected by the RandWater supply shutdown as some have in-house reservoirs while others have boreholes on site, says the Gauteng department of health.

Asked how much water is needed for a hospital to run effectively, Modiba said no two hospitals are the same size.

“Some hospitals have in-house reservoirs other have tanks only. Some also have boreholes while others don’t. Kalafong Hospital has two water reservoirs which have capacities of 748,000 and 480,000 litres respectively. “Pholosong Hospital, has two in-house reservoirs with capacities of 60,000 and 100,000 litres respectively, which are always at 100% capacity via an auto-refill system. Water is then distributed from the reservoirs to different areas within the hospital.He said the reservoirs and tanks are able to insulate the facilities for a short period when there are supply interruptions, but when the situation becomes prolonged these are never enough to meet the facilities’ water demands.

“Water tankers are used to refill the reservoirs and the in-house tanks on a continuous basis in situations where you have prolonged supply interruption.”

 

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