Gauteng education department asks schools to report water shortages
The Gauteng Department of Education on Thursday moved to put in place “contingency plans to address the issue of water disruptions in affected schools in the province”. Its first action has been to issued a request “as a matter of priority to district directors to provide the department with lists of schools which have been affected by the water disruptions in certain areas in the province”.This would‚ in turn‚ require schools “to report water disruptions to district directors so that necessary support can be speedily provided”‚ the department said in statement.The department said it had been in discussion with Johannesburg’s Disaster Management Centre “to speedily provide water and water tanks to affected schools”‚ and would make the same arrangement “with other municipalities across the province where there are water disruptions in schools”...
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