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Port Elizabeth has been hard hit with water restrictions, leaving its residents seeking alternative methods to acquire water. At present there are only two alternatives
1 - Mobile delivery
2 - Boreholes
1. A few entrepreneur's have jumped on the money wagon. These individuals are capitalising on the current water crisis by loading huge containers onto their bakkies/trucks and filling them with water from their private dams or rivers that run through their land. Their target market are people who have extra pennies lying around and they purchase the water.
2. Companies whom specialise in boreholes have flooded the summerstrand and surrounding areas by reducing their prices to become more competitive with their rival companies. After seeing these huge machines scattered across summerstrand for 2 weeks i decided to speak to one of them and get a better understanding as to their procedures.
They come in with a set fee, this fee is compulsory even if they cannot locate water (summerstrand is rich with under ground water - chances are you will most likely get tapped in).
Once they have reached a particular depth of say approximately 20 metres you as the client will be charged in addition at a 1 meter depth rate.
The average statistics are as follows:
on average the overall depths are 30 meters - with 60 metres the deepest.
on average you will get 500 Litres per hour - with 250 litres being the lowest count
80% of clients use the water for drinking purposes. The majority of people are installing automated sprinkler systems to keep their gardens nice and green.
Interesting i would say, but do you really have the thousands of rands for an installation just to keep your garden green? i know i don't.
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