Since Gift of the Givers’ intervention on February 12, team members from the organisation have been stopped by members of the public asking for water.
These are the sentiments of hundreds of residents,” Sooliman said.
The Gift of the Givers “water man”, Dr Gideon Groenewald, with a gift for finding rocks with the purest water, helped map out a plan where an exploratory borehole was drilled.
Surplus water will be housed in JoJo tanks at the periphery of the university, freely available to all citizens in keeping with Dr Mabizela’s sentiment that the people of Makhanda are the people of Rhodes University.
“A third borehole will be drilled in the university.
Drilling is also earmarked along the Waainek Water Works, to be pumped directly into the reservoir.
This is our third active borehole.
Several events are held at Settler’s throughout the year.
"In the first week of March, 30 000 people a day will visit the monument.
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Parts of Makhanda East, where the townships are located, have been without running water for up to nine days, causing outrage among residents.
According to the Makana Municipality, water on the eastern side of town started being restored on Wednesday, with the pumps working at 50% capacity.
Ngeleza said that the municipality has not been communicating with township residents about when the water will be turned off or on, or where trucks will distribute water.
Failing infrastructure Water is supplied to Makhanda through two treatment works: the Waainek Treatment Works and the James Kleynhans Water Treatment Works.
When they run out, the Waainek Treatment Works will shut down, and the town will rely entirely on 10 megalitres a day from the James Kleynhans treatment works.
The James Kleynhans Water Treatment Works supplies water to Makhanda east, the poorer side of town.
The problem with the James Kleynhans water treatment works is less about access to water, and more about ageing infrastructure and failed contracts.
The municipality announced that they had to turn off the pumps, wait for the sludge to settle, and install a new pump before starting to turn the water back on, which it finished doing on Wednesday.
A project to upgrade the pumping capacity, from 10 to 20 megalitres per day was announced in 2015, with the project due to be completed by 2017.
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South Africa is warming at twice the global average, according to the Department of Environmental Affairs.
This story provides striking examples pointing to a national crisis right up there with Eskom.
Enter the charity, Gift of the Givers, which has come to the aid of other South African towns in similar water-strapped states, including Beaufort West in the Western Cape.
“There are many grateful people in this town today,” Maclennan told Daily Maverick.
“In Beaufort West, leaks are estimated to see 40% of water waste away,” Western Cape local government spokesperson James-Brent Styan told Daily Maverick.
“These are, in my opinion, merely symptoms, not unlike Eskom, of the onset of total collapse of water infrastructure in SA,” Le Roy told Daily Maverick.
We are water-scarce in the entirety (of) South Africa,” he says.
Grahamstown / Makhanda residents queued patiently for their bottled water from Gift of the Givers.
“The establishment of an independent water regulator — like the National Energy Regulator for South Africa (Nersa) in the energy sector — is long overdue.” Le Roy says this body would be the first step towards “reinstating governance in the water sector”.
“Without these three steps we cannot arrest the implosion of SA’s water resources,” Le Roy warns.

Cape Town – Makhanda (Grahamstown) is in serious trouble in terms of its water resources, according to humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers.
Gift of the Givers says Settlers Dam, which supplies Makhanda, is at 13%.
Waainek Water Treatment Works, which receives water from the smaller Howiesons Poort Dam, had a problem with its pumping capacity due to electrical failure recently and was out of service for a few days.
“However, with rapidly dropping water levels in HP Dam, the Waainek Water Works will essentially shut down.
It supplies the west of the town with eight megalitres per day.
"The only feasible option is the James Kleynhans Water Works, which is also currently compromised.
Dr Gideon Groenewald, Gift of the Givers’ specialist hydrologist and geologist, will engage the municipality to ascertain what sustainable alternatives can be found in the immediate to medium term as work continues to double the capacity of the James Kleynhans Water Works to 20 megalitres by 2020.
Currently, it provides 10 megalitres per day.
“Gift of the Givers will assist as best it can.
Intervention in the drought through boreholes, bottled water, animal fodder and food parcels for retrenched farmworkers has already cost us R160 million,” Sooliman said.

Cape Town – Humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers dispatched a truck to Beaufort West to deliver water after receiving a request from the municipality.
In a letter to the organisation, the municipality’s communication officer, Marlene Hendricks, said: “The Beaufort West Municipality will be running out of emergency bottled water within the next day.
"This is a direct result of the low reservoir levels in town over the past months that caused the municipality to distribute the emergency water that was donated by Gift of the Givers for Day Zero and emergency cases.
The storage room at the Karoo Recreational Hall is empty after a peak festive season.” According to the letter, the town had 40 boreholes and is now operating on 27.
The demand of water in terms of usage is high.
“We appeal to Gift of the Givers to assist the municipality with emergency bottled water for the storerooms.
“The reclamation plant is working in Beaufort West and there is water in the reservoirs in both towns.
Accordingly, there is no emergency at present as far as we are concerned,” he said.
Styan said the drought remained ongoing and long-term by nature and required an ongoing effort by all stakeholders to ensure communities did not run out of drinking water.
“The department will also be sending another delegation to the towns of Beaufort West and Oudtshoorn this week to further determine the needs on the ground,” Styan said.

The Drakenstein municipality received 17568 five- litre bottles of water, thanks to a donation by Gift of the Givers who delivered water relief distribution in Paarl on Tuesday.
The humanitarian organisation delivered the water with four trucks.
It was approached for help by the Western Cape Provincial Disaster Management over the past weekend.
Gift of the Givers founder,Imtiaz Sooliman, said the water would be distributed to communities that live along the Berg River.
“While there are alternative sources of water, some of these communities have already been unable to get water from their taps since February.
"There must be a careful distinction between the drinking water and alternative sources for irrigation and sanitation, and if the water supply meets the needs of the communities,” said Sooliman.
On Tuesday, he said delivery of bottled water, totalling 112 pallets, was the first of one million bottles to be delivered to the region.
The Drakenstein Municipality implemented Level 6B water restrictions, allowing 50 litres of water a person a day and increased water tariffs since February 16, with the Berg River dam estimated at 49.0% on Tuesday.
Drakenstein Municipality spokesperson Riana Geldenhuys said the municipality welcomed the assistance of the NGO.
“Should the area run out of existing surface water, the municipality will be able to immediately switch over to groundwater sources.

Gugulethu old age home Ikhaya Loxolo was one of 11 institutions that received bottles of fresh water courtesy of the Gift of the Givers last week.
Gift of the Givers chief Dr Imtiaz Sooliman said the distribution of bottled water to the centre was in keeping with Gift of the Givers’ continued efforts to bring relief to water depleted areas in the Western Cape.
“Even though it is envisaged that Day Zero is on 9 July, in essence many areas are at Day Zero already.
“Interventions are in the form of boreholes, water management systems, provision of JoJo tanks and provision of bottled water.
“In December last year boreholes were drilled in Beaufort West providing 300 000 litres per day.
Two more boreholes have been drilled at old age homes in Beaufort West that will be functional next week.
Drilling at De Doorns is complete, water will be pumped into the municipality reservoir soon.
In the meantime 60 tons of water has been provided for animals with tons more in transit.
Bottled water has been distributed to many institutions in the last week.
“The recipients were ecstatic, clearly there is a crisis and people are in great distress.