NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO 1313
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 18 SEPTEMBER 2009
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 17)
1313. Mrs A T Lovemore (DA) to ask the Minister of Water and Environmental
Affairs:
(1) Whether the Green Drop Report will be made public; if so, when;
if not, why not;
(2) what has caused the delay in publication of the report;
(3) whether the publication of the report will be accompanied by a
public commitment to a plan of action to address shortcomings
identified in the report; if not, why not; if so, what are the
relevant details? NW1661E
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REPLY:
(1) Yes. The Green Drop Report is currently being finalised
and the aim is to make it public before the end of November
2009.
2) Delays of a few months were caused by the sheer magnitude and
complexity of the project, the first of its kind being
undertaken in South Africa. For example the entire Cape Town
Drinking Water Supply is being operated as one integrated Water
Supply System and could be evaluated as such for the Blue Drop
certificate process whilst Twenty Three (23) individual Waste
Water Service Systems had to be assessed individually and
verified for the Green Drop certification process.
3) Yes. Once the Green Drop Report is finalised as a Regulatory
Assessment, My Department will develop and modify a national
plan to address shortcomings as identified. As the execution of
such a plan is not the sole responsibility of My Department, it
will be necessary to coordinate the finalisation of such a plan
with those of Municipalities and other relevant role-players
such as the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional
Affairs, National Treasury and SALGA.