Clean water and sanitation are essential for socio-economic upliftment. While considerable progress has been made in expanding water services and sanitation, the Committee believes that the departments of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) and Education should work towards halving the number of schools and clinics without water. It is unacceptable that there is under- expenditure while there are still more than a thousand schools without access to safe water. It is incumbent on DWAF and other departments to ensure that no school or clinic is without toilets by the end of the first year of the MTEF.