Water around Joburg to be fully restored on Wednesday afternoon.

By Lehlohonolo Lehana.

Rand Water Group Chief Executive Sipho Mosai says the utility anticipates that full pumping operations will resume this evening, 20 May 2025.

The utility conducts emergency repairs on the F1/F39 bulk pipeline which burst.

Rand Water on Monday announced that pumping from the Eikenhof Pump Station was stopped to allow the repair work to be carried out.

Mosai said the system will recover fully by late Wednesday afternoon.

“The welders are now finalising the fixing of the leak. On the right there, we have our team just finishing the last touch-up of the bracket that is going to come below the pipe,” Mosai said.

“So the pipe burst was taking place on top and underneath. We have closed the top part. We are now going to be using that bracket to close it off.”

The emergency shutdown is affecting the water supply across several Johannesburg water systems, mainly in the West Rand.

The areas include those supplied by the Soweto, Commando, Randburg/Roodepoort and Deep South systems.

In the Ekurhuleni Metro, residents have been notified that planned maintenance by Rand Water at their various water supply facilities will affect several areas from next Thursday, May 29, until June 3.

The Mapleton System, which supplies areas such as Benoni, Vosloorus, Katlehong, Daveyton, Springs, Brakpan, KwaThema, Tsakani, Duduza, Nigel, and Dunnottar, will experience water shortages for up to 107 hours until June 2.

In addition, businesses and institutions were advised to maintain on-site storage equivalent to their daily demand or at least up to 36 hours.

Since November last year, several areas supplied by Joburg Water have been under water throttling, which sees frequent daily or night-time interruptions after level one restrictions were introduced in September.

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