The DA says all three Cape Town desalination plants are now online and producing a collective eight million litres of water a day.
It said despite delays due to multiple complications, the Monwabisi, Strandfontein and V&A Waterfront desalination plants are now complementing the City’s strained water supply system.
The DA said in light of the National Department of Water and Sanitation’s failure to augment water supply infrastructure in the Metro, the City has had to construct its own bulk water supply infrastructure.
“This is where money accrued from water tariff increases is being spent - to prevent a drought from ever returning to the Western Cape.”