Rural water trucking across South Africa
See every litre the water truck delivers.
Tanker Watch reads GPS and tank-volume sensors on water tankers, checks each delivery against the plan, suggests fairer routes and publishes a public dashboard that communities can read. A named officer approves every action.
Trucks tracked
Position every few seconds
Litres delivered
Measured at the tank outlet
Delivery confirmed
Photo and location check
Why water trucking needs a public record
When trucks serve places without pipes, communities often cannot tell whether water was sent, how much arrived or why their street was skipped. The cycle below repeats until someone can see it.
Missed delivery
The truck was paid for the trip, the tank stayed empty.
Short delivery
Water arrived, but less than the plan said.
Unequal routes
Some villages are served early and often, others last.
How it works
One delivery, start to finish
Press play to step through a pilot test delivery.
Pilot test dataAI helpers and cloud helpers
Each helper has one job in the water trucking chain. Model names below are the ones the company has specified for the pilot design and are confirmed against provider documentation before release.
Cloud helpers
| Job | Service options | Runs at |
|---|---|---|
| Device ingest | Azure IoT, AWS IoT Core or Google Cloud IoT-class services | Cloud |
| Edge inference | NVIDIA Jetson-class edge devices | Edge (on the tanker) |
| Models | Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock or Vertex AI | Cloud |
| Notifications | SMS, WhatsApp, email | Cloud |
Evidence
Settlements without reliable piped water are a documented problem in South Africa. These two documents give the official and civil-society background.
Flooded and Forgotten: informal settlements and the right to housing in South Africa
A ReliefWeb report on conditions in informal settlements, including service gaps. How Tanker Watch answers it: it records which settlements receive deliveries, and when.
Open on ReliefWebGovernment notice, June 2026
An official document from gov.za. How Tanker Watch answers it: it gives officials a time-stamped record of each delivery.
Open on gov.zaThe pilot will confirm its own results: delivery match rate, time from missed delivery to approved action, and share of deliveries confirmed by photo.
Impact
A message from our founder
“Where I grew up, water is something you plan your whole day around. When a truck is the only source, people need to know three things: is it coming, how much will it bring, and why did it skip us. Today most communities cannot answer any of them. I started CHARLIE ENTERPRISES to put those answers in the open, so a family can see the truck on the map and an official can see the record. Fair water should not depend on who you know.”
Simphiwe Thanyani Mulaudzi, Director · thanyani@charlieenterprises.co.za
Households
See the truck, the planned stops and delivered volumes on a public page.
Municipal officers
Approve routes and follow up on missed stops with evidence.
Truck operators
Prove each delivery with volume and photo records.
Councillors and auditors
Check equity and spend against a shared record.
Why we think it can work
Municipalities already approve truck schedules. Tanker Watch keeps that human approval and adds measurement. Impact figures from the pilot are published only once they have been measured.
Coverage: 20 areas
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| Area | Province | Status | Temp | Rain now |
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About
Tanker Watch is a product of CHARLIE ENTERPRISES, a South African private company based in the City of Tshwane.
Registration details
| Enterprise name | CHARLIE ENTERPRISES |
|---|---|
| Registration number | 2026 / 896767 / 07 |
| Type | Private Company |
| Status | In Business |
| Registered | 9 November 2026 |
| Financial year end | August |
| Registered office | Hamerkop Street, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, 0157 |
| Director | Simphiwe Thanyani Mulaudzi |
Download registration certificate (PDF)
Official CIPC registration certificate COR14.3, issued 10 November 2026.
Founder
Simphiwe Thanyani Mulaudzi
Director and owner
“Public water should be visible water.”
Contact
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Direct emails
| Owner | thanyani@charlieenterprises.co.za |
|---|---|
| General | info@charlieenterprises.co.za |
| Quotes (RFQ) | rfq@charlieenterprises.co.za |
| Admin | admin@charlieenterprises.co.za |
| Finance | finance@charlieenterprises.co.za |
Registered office: Hamerkop Street, City of Tshwane, Gauteng, 0157.
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CHARLIE ENTERPRISES, registration 2026/896767/07, Hamerkop Street, City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng 0157. Contact: info@charlieenterprises.co.za. Information contact: Simphiwe Thanyani Mulaudzi, thanyani@charlieenterprises.co.za.
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