Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
Based on the question, I guess the Ethekwini water loss insurance scheme is only a Durban thing.
"The nominal monthly premium, which is raised on the consolidated bill and forwarded to a private insurance company, covers part of the cost of additional water used as a result of the leak."
Looks like a third party inurance and council is only collecting the premium. Which leads to the question whether the owners/body corporates building insurance might have such water los cover on that policy already.

Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
I'd suggest the extra water usage is consequent of the fault, and the party responsible for the repair would also be liable for that consequent expense.
That would imply that it had been repaired before and was still under warranty. Otherwise one cannot make the new plumber responsible for the old plumbers or original developers f-up.