Mr Speaker, on the issues of climate change and the looming water crisis that has been anticipated, the department is more supportive of the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs on this aspect. Our task is to ensure that we support the department and it's the one that is leading on these issues and, therefore, we are accepting that whatever they come up with through co-operative discussions will be taken up by ourselves. What we have done though, is to conduct a study around the water and sanitation backlogs in South Africa. We have the report in that respect that outlines what has to be done for us to be able to ensure that universal access is reached in South Africa.
The last point is on the issue of urbanisation. We have developed an Urban Development Framework, a framework that is aimed at looking at the migration of people. We found out that a lot of people are staying in squalid conditions in informal settlements because they are running away from the grinding poverty in rural areas. Others are being evicted from the farms, therefore they go to these urban areas and stay in these conditions.
Now we have a situation in South Africa where areas that are wealthy are living side by side with squalid conditions and poor areas. Thank you very much.