The municipality has a sanitation backlog of 25 000 toilets, of which 4 000 had been built in 2008. The next phase would be implemented in the following financial year. The municipality was at high risk of floods and disasters. The district inherited two major housing projects from the Eastern Cape that had challenges in respect of bulk infrastructure, ie Ibisi and Riverside. The latter had been blocked. The municipality also inherited 59 collapsed water schemes from Alfred Nzo District Municipality, which required rehabilitation.