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Rand Water provides potable water to metropolitan and local municipalities, industry and mining in Gauteng, and parts of Mpumalanga, the Free State, and North West provinces. [7] Rand Water has water network of 3 500 km of pipelines, 60 reservoirs, supplying 4 520 million litres of water daily to its varied customers.
Rand Water has a more than 100-year history [4] in the Gauteng area, the industrial heartland of South Africa. It buys water from DWA, treats it and sells it to large industries, mines and municipalities.
The Vaal River Barrage Reservoir is a dam on the Vaal River near Vanderbijlpark, border Gauteng and Free State, South Africa. The Barrage, created by a set of gates across the Vaal River, was built by Rand Water downstream of the Vaal Dam, in 1923. The reservoir is 64 kilometres long and has a total storage capacity of 63 million litres, a ...
A reliable water supply system should provide a designed region with sufficient quantity and acceptable levels of quality drinking water. In 1903 the Water Works Commission established the Rand Water Board to accomplish the above. [1] Those responsible for the management water systems were expected to address the following. To source water
Bulk water tariffs vary greatly. In 2011 the largest water board, Rand Water, charged Rand 3.97 (US$0.48) per cubic meter. The highest bulk water tariff (Rand 9.11 or US$1.10 per cubic meter) was charged by the financially crippled Namakwa Water Board, while the lowest tariff (Rand 2.28 or US$0.28) was charged by the Pelladrift Water Board. [74]
The Rand Water Board was an important organization in the development of Johannesburg and this was illustrated by the location of the RWB Head Office within the financial district of the city The Rand Water Board Building forms a strong contextual grouping of fine buildings with the neighbouring Custom House, the Second new Library Hotel (1938 ...
The Sterkfontein Dam forms part of the Tugela-Vaal water transfer scheme for the interbasin transfer of water from the Thukela River in KwaZulu-Natal to boost the levels in the Vaal River System. Water from the Sterkfontein Dam is released once the Vaal Dam drops to below 16%. The dam has its own island some 5 km (3 mi) long.
Rand Water: Public utility Water utility for Gauteng province. 3,411 R13.4bn R3.15bn Fully state owned 1903 Sasol: Energy International coal-liquefaction, petroleum refining and distribution. 30,100 US$21.7bn US$3.11bn 27.3% state owned (mostly indirectly through the government employees pension fund) 1950 Sentech: Telecommunications