The auditor-general has painted a grim picture of the country’s main state-owned water boards, revealing that only four out of nine achieved above 80% of their planned targets.
Auditor-general Tsakani Maluleke on Wednesday painted a bleak picture of the country’s main state-owned water boards, revealing that only four out of nine achieved above 80% of their planned targets. She cited irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure running into billions of rand.
Water losses as a result of ageing infrastructure that is not properly maintained caused a total of 74.7-million kilolitres of water lost, or R794m in lost revenue. ..A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.
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