THE Limpopo government has provided R90million to the Mopani district municipality to address the water shortage crisis.
The shortage resulted in the district recently being declared a disaster area.
The money will be used to connect a huge pipe that will draw water from the Nandoni Dam to supply villages around Giyani and Modjadjiskloof.
The labour-intensive project will be launched tomorrow and construction work is scheduled to be finished by the end of June next year.
Mopani district municipality executive mayor Joshua Matlou said yesterday: "The chronic shortage of water in that part of the province has been dragging on for so long.
"The majority of the population in the district depended solely on water brought in tanks by the municipality, while others bought water at exorbitant prices from the well-offs who have boreholes in their yards."
Matlou said that when theproject was completed it would be able to supply adequate clean water to villages around Giyani and Modjadhjiskloof, which have had little or no water at all for two years.
He said the shortage in the area was as a result of two sources of water - the Middle Letaba and Nsami dams - drying up at the beginning of 2008.
The two dams were currently at 1.1 and 40percent empty, respectively.
Alson Matukane, director of water affairs in Limpopo, said the provincial government had built several dams as water sources for communities since 1994.
He said the province aimed to build other dams in the five districts of Mopani, Sekhukhune, Capricorn, Waterberg and Vhembe in an effort to store water for household needs and farming.
Premier Cassel Mathale has cautioned people to use water sparingly, saying without it people, animals and plants would die.
Mathale said the economy of the province depended on agriculture, mining and tourism and that without water it would suffer.
Mopani to get water at last
THE Limpopo government has provided R90million to the Mopani district municipality to address the water shortage crisis.
The shortage resulted in the district recently being declared a disaster area.
The money will be used to connect a huge pipe that will draw water from the Nandoni Dam to supply villages around Giyani and Modjadjiskloof.
The labour-intensive project will be launched tomorrow and construction work is scheduled to be finished by the end of June next year.
Mopani district municipality executive mayor Joshua Matlou said yesterday: "The chronic shortage of water in that part of the province has been dragging on for so long.
"The majority of the population in the district depended solely on water brought in tanks by the municipality, while others bought water at exorbitant prices from the well-offs who have boreholes in their yards."
Matlou said that when theproject was completed it would be able to supply adequate clean water to villages around Giyani and Modjadhjiskloof, which have had little or no water at all for two years.
He said the shortage in the area was as a result of two sources of water - the Middle Letaba and Nsami dams - drying up at the beginning of 2008.
The two dams were currently at 1.1 and 40percent empty, respectively.
Alson Matukane, director of water affairs in Limpopo, said the provincial government had built several dams as water sources for communities since 1994.
He said the province aimed to build other dams in the five districts of Mopani, Sekhukhune, Capricorn, Waterberg and Vhembe in an effort to store water for household needs and farming.
Premier Cassel Mathale has cautioned people to use water sparingly, saying without it people, animals and plants would die.
Mathale said the economy of the province depended on agriculture, mining and tourism and that without water it would suffer.
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