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The Western Aqueduct is the single, largest water infrastructure project ever undertaken by eThekwini City Council with an estimated value exceeding R800million. This project is of strategic, socio-economic importance to the eThekwini region. It will add a further capacity of 400 megalitres of water per day to the 1.1million megalitres of water currently consumed per day by the City.  This project will comprise of approximately 73km of welded steel pipelines in diameters ranging from 1.6m to 0.5m which will be laid along existing pipeline servitudes. The pipeline route will run along existing municipal roads through the eThekwini region from Umlaas Road terminating at Ntuzuma, Pinetown and Tshelimnyama.

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