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Water Scarcity Presents Both One Of The Biggest Headwinds, And One Of The Biggest Opportunities, For Investors

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Rand Water announced that there will be a 54-hour planned water outage from 5:00 on November 15 in various suburbs across the city. The water supplier will be working on a raw water pipe that supplies its Vereeniging water purification plant. Gundo Maswime, an expert on Municipal Infrastructure talks to us about what affect this could have on us.
15 Nov 2021 11AM English South Africa Business News · Investing

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