The reliability of municipal water and sanitation services is generally deteriorating, evidenced by the Green Drop and Blue Drop assessments. To mitigate the total collapse of services/infrastructure, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is strengthening its regulatory role over municipal water and sanitation services.
During this financial year we will be consulting on updated and more comprehensive norms and standards for water and ...
a) The total cost of the partially achieved Vaal River Intervention Programme since its inception is as follows:
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Vaal River Intervention Programme expenditure |
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Vaal River Intervention Programme expenditure classification |
2019/20 |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
2022/23 |
Costs to date |
|
Goods and services (OPEX) |
224,701,156 |
168,332,863 |
200,721,371 |
159,649,698 |
753,405,090 |
|
Payments for capital assets (CAPEX |
- |
- |
23,375,713 |
103,404,225 |
126,779,939 |
|
Total Vaal River Intervention Programme |
224,701,156 ... |
There has been sporadic water supply especially in the high lying areas such as the Rampodi and Thabeng sections in the Motlhabe Village due to increased demand, unauthorised household connections in the area and ongoing loadshedding.
In the short-term, the Moses Kotane Local Municipality (LM) has made funds available for drilling and equipping of additional boreholes to augment the current water supply. It is ...
Gauteng has been experiencing water shortages in recent weeks. Water supply interruptions have largely been a function of unstable electricity supply as well as incidents of vandalism. Rand Water has always maintained that their infrastructure capacity is sufficient to meet the current real demand. Nevertheless, Rand Water has ringfenced R42 billion to rehabilitate and augment their infrastructure. Rand Water has sufficient funding headroom to ...
a) The Department through the Bucket Eradication Programme implemented 5 projects in David Kruiper Local Municipality from 2013 to 2017. These include
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Area |
No. of toilets eradicated |
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Pabalelo |
596 |
|
Kalksloot |
120 |
|
Rosedale |
1771 |
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Louisvale |
600 |
|
Dakota Weg |
306 |
|
Total |
3393 |
b) Several areas or settlements are being formalised which still use the bucket toilet system and are considered “new” buckets. These cases occurred after ...
The Mbashe Local Municipality is supported by the Department of Water and Sanitation through the Water Services Infrastructure Grant (WSIG) and is implementing two water augmentation projects over a three-year period to address water supply challenges in the municipality. The table below provides details of the projects:
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Project Name |
Number of people to benefit |
Budget |
Implementation year |
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Equipping of boreholes in Mnquma and Mbhashe ... |
The Victor Khanye Local Municipality is supported by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) through the Water Services Infrastructure Grant (WSIG) to implement Water Conservation and Water Demand Management (WCWDM) projects to reduce non-revenue water.
The DWS approved funding of R68 million over a period of three financial years (2022/2023 -2024/2025) to be allocated to the municipality for the WCWDM projects. The intended ...
(1) Details of grant funding paid to the Uthukela District Municipality in KwaZulu Natal from 1 July 2016 to 31 January 2023 provided in table below:
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Financial year |
(a) total amount of each payment |
(b) date of each payment |
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2016/17 |
RBIG: R 64 000 000 WSIG: R 81 807 000 Total = R145 807 000 |
Paid in tranches as per payment schedule for schedule 5B allocations approved by ... |
a) As a response to the specific skills shortage challenge affecting both the Department and the national water sector, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) established the Learning Academy in 2007 which is a technical and scarce skills development programme. It represents an investment in sustaining quality in DWS entry level human resources, thereby ensuring that in the long term, the DWS will ...
(a-b) It is the responsibility of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to ensure adequate water availability through the development and management of infrastructure for water resources, as well as enhance the provision of sustainable and reliable water supply and sanitation by local government. The responsibility to supply water and sanitation services lies with municipalities that are Water Services Authorities (WSAs). Regional Bulk ...