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WaterCAN Executive Manager Ferrial Adam (wearing the blue beenie) speaks with police at the Emmarentia water protest on Tuesday evening. (Alex Patrick/News24)
Residents in Johannesburg's northern suburbs stopped rush-hour traffic on Tuesday evening in protest over a nine-day water outage in Emmarentia.
This comes as Rand Water increased the water flow from the Eikenhof pump station on Monday evening to 92%, enabling the affected reservoirs and towers to fill up.
The pump station was increased from 83% capacity, where it was meant to remain until 12 July because of planned maintenance on Eikenhof, which began on 22 June.
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