Three officials of the department were quoted in the newspaper saying that long-term plans on how to mitigate the national drought did not get the attention it needed. They further said and I quote: "We did not ignore it or plan to fail, we just screwed up."
Whether we have drought or not, our water infrastructure is, by large, in danger to collapse. Underperforming municipalities governed by the ANC is the main contributor to water crises and the polluting of our rivers.