Cape Town water work: upcoming shut-offs and pressure tests for 16–20 November
Selected upcoming work includes overnight shut-offs and pressure tests. Leak detection and a treatment-plant shutdown have different supply implications.
Selected Cape Town areas face planned water shut-offs and pressure tests next week. The City notice, published 13 November, provides the complete street-level schedule; these are highlights for 16–20 November 2026. All times are SAST.
Planned no-water windows
- 17 November, 20:00–18 November, 05:00: Welgedacht, Selborne Slot, Oude Westhof, Van Riebeeckshof, Kanonberg and Kanonberg Lifestyle Estate.
- 19 November, 09:00–19:00: Woodstock, Salt River and Observatory.
Pressure tests: impacts vary by property
Testing runs 09:00–16:00: Welcome Glen/Da Gama Park on 16 November; Diep River on 17 November; Kommetjie on 18 November; Retreat, Cafda Village, Steenberg, Coniston Park and Sheraton Park on 19 November. Some properties may have low pressure or no water; exact streets cannot be predicted.
Plant maintenance is not a city-wide shut-off
Faure plant maintenance is scheduled for 18 November, 07:00–19 November, 18:00. Rerouting and prefilled reservoirs are intended to maintain supply; city-wide conservation is requested.
Leak detection in Blackheath Industrial, Claremont and Fish Hoek runs 16–20 November, 09:30–15:00, without expected disruption.
Store water in clean, sealed containers. Check updates: work can overrun; end times are not restoration guarantees.
Contextual archive photograph of E-rand reservoir and water tower in Midrand, 10 May 2014; not Cape Town infrastructure or current maintenance. Photo: Ossewa (Igmar Grewar) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johannesburg_Water_E-rand_Reservoir.jpg . Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ . Cropped and resized; adaptations retain CC BY-SA 4.0.