Following reports that the residents of the Amathole District Municipality, which includes the towns Peddie, Stutterheim, Kei Mouth and Haga Haga have been without water for weeks, and noting that the water issues are due to a lack of maintenance, whilst the specified municipality has not spent the allocated funds (details furnished) set aside for maintenance and infrastructure repairs, what intervening steps does he intend to take to (a) assist the municipality to (i) spend the allocated funds for maintenance and (ii) perform maintenance on ageing infrastructure and (b) avoid a water crisis as a result of ageing infrastructure?