One further major challenge identified by the Portfolio Committee was that all additional budget allocations made on the water infrastructure programme were in respect of existing projects and no funding was being allocated to fund new infrastructure programmes. Therefore, all water infrastructure programmes were locked into the present growth path of the country. If one added to that the fact that 98% of all present water resources having already been allocated, then it was obvious that the future availability of new water resources may soon become a major restriction or inhibitor of growth in the country. The Portfolio Committee was of the view that major political decisions needed to be made in respect of the availability of new water resources, in the near future, to address these major possible inhibiting factors on a realistic and reasonable upward growth path for the nation. The Government's goal of creating a Developmental State, with a progressive, rapid and sustainable growth path, and which was people-orientated required, inter alia, major investment by the Government to ensure a rapidly expanding and sustainable water resource base.