The Blue and Green Drop programmes are being relaunched to rebuild SA’s often poorly maintained and ‘looted’ water systems
will continue to work towards developing appropriate special purpose vehicles, currently being refined in close cooperation with both the treasury and presidency, to enable the water sector to be recapitalised.”
Siboniso Mkhaliphi, the department’s acting chief director of compliance, monitoring and enforcement, denied the programmes had been suspended, saying “there were challenges in allocating funds to employ services of external service providers. Work continued to be done in-house but the results were not published. We are referring to it as a resuscitation or relaunch to highlight our intention to conduct the audits — but importantly to publish the results.
“The number of wastewater treatment works operating above design capacity is increasing. This points to lack of capacity upgrades to cater for population growth and industrial developments,” Mkhaliphi said. Mkhaliphi said the programmes form part of the department’s regulatory function. “Noncompliance . . . will, in the first instance, point us to what needs to be fixed. Water services institutions will be given a chance to fix what is wrong through administrative enforcement processes, which may culminate in legal actions if not complied with.”
“If the risk is financial, then the water services institutions will be guided to use the reports in supporting their case for funding either through existing government infrastructure funding programmes or in the financial markets.”, the Democratic Alliance’s representative for water and sanitation, said the water crisis in municipalities “reflects government failure at its most basic level”.
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