{"licence":"CC BY 4.0 for this compilation and its readings. The facts are what Johannesburg Water (JW) reported on its status boards and notices: credit Johannesburg Water as the source.","release":"2026-09-29-318d9dca","source_view":"api.suburb_supply","caveat":"Every supply (reservoir, tower, pump station, direct feed) that Johannesburg Water links to a suburb, one row per suburb and supply, with the grade of the link (jw_page: printed on a JW reservoir page or zone table; jw_list: printed on JW's list of towers, June 2024; jw_page_other_name: printed there under the name JW's lists use for the land the suburb stands on, for example Houghton Estate for Houghton, shown in printed_as; jw_notice: named in a JW notice; jw_statement: listed under the supply in a JW media statement; researched: found in JW's own words by a reviewed research pass, 2026-10-02), the suburb names as JW printed them and the evidence URLs. A suburb draws on every supply listed; they are not territories. JW reported these links; they are not a pipe map, and a suburb missing here is unmapped, not unaffected (see api.catchment_chain).","suburb":"melville","suburb_name":"Melville","coverage":"mapped","unknown_reason":null,"supplies":{"hursthill-2-reservoir":{"asset_name":"Hursthill 2 Reservoir","kind":"reservoir","systems":["central","commando"],"link":"jw_page","printed_as":["Melville","Melville Ext.1","Melville Ext.2","Melville Ext.3"],"evidence_urls":["https://www.johannesburgwater.co.za/all-towers-and-reservoir-direct-feeds/","https://www.johannesburgwater.co.za/hursthill-2-reservoir/","https://www.johannesburgwater.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Daily-Water-Notice-Tuesday-24-March-2026_Afternoon.pdf"],"fed_via":null,"years":{"2026":{"days_bad":106,"days_reported":189,"city_median_days_bad":4.0},"2025":{"days_bad":32,"days_reported":106,"city_median_days_bad":1}},"base_rate":{"n":10,"median_hours":17.0,"worst_hours":64.83333333333333,"n_censored":1,"caption":"The last 10 outages JW reported on this supply lasted a median of at least 17 hours; the longest at least 2.7 days. 1 of them had no reported end (still open, or JW's reports stopped), so they count at the length so far. This is a record of the past, not a forecast."},"open_outage":null,"history":"/api/v1/supplies/hursthill-2-reservoir/history"}},"strain":{"2026":{"strain_days":182,"higher_lying_warning_days":7,"reported_days":189},"2025":{"strain_days":34,"higher_lying_warning_days":2,"reported_days":106}},"history":"/api/v1/suburbs/melville/history"}