{"id":209486,"date":"2021-11-24T15:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/kzn-dam-levels-remain-steady\/"},"modified":"2021-11-24T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T13:12:07","slug":"kzn-dam-levels-remain-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/kzn-dam-levels-remain-steady\/","title":{"rendered":"KZN dam levels remain steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202111\/dam3s.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A weekly status report of reservoirs in KwaZulu-Natal shows a minimal decline of the province\u2019s dam levels from last week\u2019s 65.5% to 65.4% this week.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, the Department of Water and Sanitation said the province\u2019s main water supply system, Umgeni, is down from 71.8% to 71.0%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile, the five dams on the Umgeni Water Supply System are mostly above average. The Midmar Dam is at 86.5% from 87.3%, Nagle Dam is down from 87.3% to 86.5% and Inanda Dam has declined from 82.1% from 81.4% meanwhile Albert- Falls has further declined from 47.3% to 47.0%,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p>Driel Barrage, Wagendrift and Pongolapoort Dams have remained unchanged at 90.3%, 95.4% and 55.3% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>On the Mdloti River, the Hazelmere Dam is below average at 33.4% from 33.8%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The department has reiterated its call to residents to use water sparingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Africa is a water scarce country and we all need to play our role by using water with the utmost care and avoid by all means, water leaks,\u201d &nbsp;said the department\u2019s spokesperson Sputnik Ratau.<\/p>\n<p>Ratau\u2019s remarks come as the Craigie Burn Dam on the Mnyamvubu River has seen a minimal decline from 98.6% to 97.2%, Woodstock Dam at 82.8% from 82.7% and the Mearns Dam has increased from 56.0% to 66.4%. \u2013<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly status report of reservoirs in KwaZulu-Natal shows a minimal decline of the province\u2019s dam levels from last week\u2019s 65.5% to 65.4% this week. In a statement on Wednesday, the Department of Water and Sanitation said the province\u2019s main water supply system, Umgeni, is down from 71.8% to 71.0%. \u201cMeanwhile, the five dams on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-209486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/kzn-dam-levels-remain-steady.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}