High and dry: What happens if the water in Joburg doesn't come back after planned outage?

Rand Water says its 58-hour infrastructure maintenance in the City of Johannesburg is well under way. How important is maintaining water infrastructure, and what would happen if the infrastructure was not well maintained? Listen to News24's Mihlali Ntsabo as he speaks to News24 Joburg metro reporter Alex Patrick for the latest on the outage and planned maintenance. Later, Associate Professor at the Wits School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Adesola Ilemobade, explains why water infrastructure maintenance, although an inconvenience, is essential.