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Table L5: Some water consumption data for the Clermont Township in the Durban
Functional Region.
Households
Site Existing Mean rooms Total Mean Mean
service per stand consumption consumption consumption
1375 rooms on for survey for survey for survey
35 stands and sample sample sample
280 rooms on It day·') (t stand-' (t room-'
36 stands day-') day")
respectively
for survey
households)
Reservoir zone Water only 10,7 15124 432 40
R1 and R5
Reservoir zone Sewerage 7,8 28191 783 101
R4 and water
Water only · · . 40
Reservoir zone No water · · - 40
Rl. R4 and R5 connection
Shops Sewerage · - 1 624 -
and water
(8 stands)
Water only - - 650 -
(28 stands)
No water - - 650 .
(11 stands)
Schools Sewerage - - 30 t capita-1 and water
day·' -
Water only - · 12 t capita-1 dayl
-
Source:
See also:
After Anonymous. 1988. Republic of South Africa. Department of
Development Aid (on behalf ofthe South African Development Trustl. Chief
Directorate: Works, Directorates: Civil and Agricultural Engineering
Services, Project No. Z790 Clermont: Pinetown District: Natal, revised
report on water consumption and augmentation of storage capacity, J.C.
Themn Burke and Isaac Inc., Westville, 20 p. + app.
Palmer Development Group, 1994. Water and sanitation in urban areas:
survey of on-site conditions. WRC Report No. 561/1/94, Water Research
Commission, Pretoria, 63 p. + app. (The report provides data on water and
sanitation conditions with reference to backyard shacks, in six townships
in South Africa including Clermont).
(i) Recent household or per capita water consumption data for formal
and less formal households in black townships are extremely difficult