Main water supply to Gauteng and Free State to be cut off for six months during Lesotho Highlands Water Project tunnel maintenance

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The main water supply to Gauteng and Free State, is to be cut off for six months. The governments of South Africa and Lesotho have officially commenced the six-month maintenance shutdown of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) tunnel. The Lesotho Highlands Water Project is a critical infrastructure that supplies water to South Africa and generates hydropower for Lesotho. To talk more on this matter, we are joined on the line by the Water and Sanitation spokesperson Dr Mandla Mathebula