By Kim Saulse
12 November 2009
The City of Cape Town has assured residents that their drinking water is perfectly safe to drink despite an earthy taste in some areas.
Spokesperson Peter Flower says numerous complaints have been received by the Water and Sanitation Department about drinking water that originates from the waterskloof Dam.
Water from this dam is treated at the Blackheath and Faure Water Treatment Plants that currently supply some of the northern suburbs, the Helderberg area in the east, across the Khayelitsha and Cape Flats areas, through to the South Peninsula in the west.
Flower says the cause of the taste is a substance given off by algae when it dies.
12 November 2009
The City of Cape Town has assured residents that their drinking water is perfectly safe to drink despite an earthy taste in some areas.
Spokesperson Peter Flower says numerous complaints have been received by the Water and Sanitation Department about drinking water that originates from the waterskloof Dam.
Water from this dam is treated at the Blackheath and Faure Water Treatment Plants that currently supply some of the northern suburbs, the Helderberg area in the east, across the Khayelitsha and Cape Flats areas, through to the South Peninsula in the west.
Flower says the cause of the taste is a substance given off by algae when it dies.
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