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.