The Mosselbay municipality has given the go ahead for a R240m seawater desalination plant. What else could they have done with R240m?
The graph below indicates how serious the drought in the Garden Route (or more specifically Mosselbay) is. The water level has been deteriorating since Mid November 2009. By following the trend,it would suggest that Mosselbay would run out of water by January 2011.
The Mosselbay Municipality has now commenced with the construction of the Mosselbay Seawater Desalination plant. The project,estimated to cost R240 million,will start delivering water to the dam by January 2010. This however,will not be enough water to satisfy demand for Mosselbay.
I wonder who is going to pay for such development? Surely the municipality is going to pass the cost onto consumers,so prepare yourselves for some heavy increases…
Alternatively,for R240m,the municipality could have bought sixty nine thousand ,5000l water tanks. Households could have installed their tanks and harvest rainwater from their roofs. This would have ensured an additional storage space of 345,000,000 (three hundred and forty five million) liters of storage space.
69,000 water tanks (5000l),would have given Mosselbay 1.3 x more storage space than the TOTAL storage space of the Wolwedans dam.
Finally,I wonder how long it will take and how much it will cost for Mosselbay’s seawater desalination plant to produce 345,000,000 litres of water…..?
What are Mosselbay Muncipality hidding,update the website with the latest dam levels for wolwedans dam…….or are they going to screw us with extended water restictions…..
Trevor