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A stopcock, desalination or groundwater extraction plant, is coming to a suburb or household near you, according to the City of Cape Town. While dams in the Western Cape have seen gains of 1.4% over ...

Fixing burst pipes costs a lot more than preventing them from bursting THE cold weather is beginning to bite and temperatures are starting to drop – we’re bracing ourselves for a pretty brutal few ...

Update. This blog post was first written way back in 2012 – but the way you find your stopcock hasn’t changed… A stopcock is your mains water tap (the off switch). Everyone should know where theirs is ...

The City says consumption must be brought down to 500 million litres of water a day to help Cape Town get through as much of the summer as possible before winter 2018. This comes as dam storage levels ...

A YORK householder has spoken out after Yorkshire Water refused to repair a broken stopcock outside his home. Mike Laycock said he wanted to warn other customers that the water company had quietly ...