Imtiaz Sooliman – Gift of the Givers drills boreholes as Eastern Cape battles water crisis

			My recommendation, not now, some
time ago, was that every school,
		

			everything in every hospital in
South Africa, should have a ball.
		

			South Africa is a water deprived
country. You know, it's we don't
		

			have enough water resources. We
should have learned that a long
		

			time ago, and 60 million citizens
have to take care of the water.
		

			How we use it, you know? So number
one, we have to use water
		

			sparingly. We have to be very
careful the amount of water we
		

			have, because the population is
expanding, and the water levels
		

			are not expanding as fast as
populations, because we're not
		

			putting any bigger dams. Some dams
just expanding. But it's taking
		

			too long to to do the system,
certainly in a crisis like this,
		

			it's good that people have their
own balls, in their own homes and
		

			in their own industry, not only
for themselves, but to share the
		

			floods in KZN, when it came and
the water plants got destroyed,
		

			people who had boreholes open up
their balls and opened up their
		

			hearts. Anybody in the area to
please come and take water. So
		

			government should look at putting
balls, you know, throughout the
		

			country as a backup system. We
need to expand the dam walls where
		

			we can. We need to expand and put
more dams in catchment areas. And
		

			of course, we need to make sure
that the water is running all the
		

			time, because when the water water
shedding takes place, quite often,
		

			the pipes crack. And when that
happens, the old systems collapse.
		

			It's more expensive to fix, and
you lose a lot of water also. But
		

			rainwater harvesting, of course,
you know, when there's rain, put a
		

			Georgia tank, use it to the best
of your quality. Any system that
		

			makes you save water and reuse
water is what the country needs.
		

			Every school and every hospital
and every clinic in South Africa
		

			should have its own mall, because
health, water and health is
		

			inseparable. It's it's one of the
same thing. So when you have
		

			crisis like this, schools don't
close down. There's no hygiene
		

			issues, there's no sanitation
issues, there's no spread of
		

			illness. And even hospitals. I
mean, many hospitals have
		

			virtually capitalist canceled with
the absence of water and even the
		

			headwater that the pumps were not
working because of Eskom so
		

			in the long run walls, but
eventually solar system, where
		

			they're off the grid.