If you are going to store water (for food and manufacturing) that would normally run down to the sea, what happens to the ecosystems downstream supported by this water. Aren't you solving one problem by creating another. This is is not sustainable. We should rather use the available water more efficiently than deprive other users (nature) of their share - which has already been cut anyway!

"Nelson Mandela Bay Metropole " The Metropole was a cinema in London in the 1940s. It is not an English word and has no meaning. It's metro, metropolis or metropolitan. In this case, Nelson Mandela Bay Metro is correct. Please inform all INC writers and sub-editors.

This year is the centenary of SA as a nation state. It's time to get it right. Back in 1910 there were many good planners and a good infrastructure was established. It requires vision, competence, and a sense of duty. Instead we have a circus of incompetent people chasing after bling, cars, lifestyles, and sports pageants. Let's get real. It's not that difficult. And stop the idiotic claims that the poor are being taken care of. Nobody will be taken care of the way things are. Get the basics right and then everybody will gain. We've had fifteen years of talk. Listen to the experts, who are there, many of them, and draw on their real expertise, and stop chasing brother-sister contractors.

All our country's problems, this especially including the severe potable and industrial water shortages are as a result of a totally incompetent government system; this totally based on corruption and super self-enrichment at the expense of the destruction of the once, most advanced country in Africa. Let's face the truth: these so-called intellectuals are not capable of running a successful brothel, let alone a successful country. There are highly competent, experienced and honorable people in our country who could provide proven techniques and principles to vastly improve our water situation in South Africa; but they are totally ignored because of what can only be described as corruption. For instance, billions are spent on water boreholes that produce pathetic results; this because those who pinpoint the borehole sites are incompetent and ill-experienced, but officials refuse to listen to those who really know how to plot the drilling-sites accurately. The result is that the drilling contractors are being paid billions for drilling tens of thousands of boreholes that produce little to nothing other than a very comfortable lifestyle for all those involved in the expensive business of drilling very deep holes in the ground. There is an over-abundance of water beneath the surface of the earth for all the nations of the world. The time has arrived for the governments of this world to start looking to the welfare of the people and not only to their own super-prosperous lifestyles before it is too late. Their time for governing is drawing to a rapid close. Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink because of corrupt officialdom..

People waste to much. That is problem number 1. Number two would be the enviromentalists who do not want the dams built. Come up with a solution as well. Government must listen more to what experts have to say and not listen to Mbeki's advisors. Then we might be eating garlic and beetroot. In this case placing buckets outside to catch our own water.

Apartheid Apartheid Apartheid ...terrible terrible terrible... disease NOT disease NOT disease NOT... Water shortages NOT shortages NOT shortages NOT Power supply "miscalculations"/shortages: NOT... Destruction of family life due to avaricious behavior NOT Virulent crime and corruption NOT Death&decimation to wildlife NOT...potholes,NOT.."NOT's?" A destroyed world heritage (eg Robben Island) NOT It is time to take stock and make reparation.Recriminations NOT.Solution?...YES

stimates that there is a R100 billion backlog in spending on water infrastructure. -------- you have to spend money to guarantee services, I bet the ANC will never by this capitalist propaganda, they thought you by a Mercedes and the water takes care of itself.....

Politicians being driven around in luxury cars worth millions, romping around in luxurious hotels and mansions is a clear indication that they are not fit to govern a country. We need civil servants whose first priority is serving the people, not themselves. And with a president who seems hell bent on spending as much time as possible in bed with his many wives, no wonder his brainless sheep follow his bad example and think their only duty is to enrich themselves, not to look after the wellbeing of the country.