Treasury study highlights problems aggravating South Africa’s water crisis
SA’s water-shortage crisis is aggravated by rundown infrastructure‚ nonpaying consumers and tariffs that do not cover the cost of providing water. These are some of the key findings of a performance and spending review of the water-delivery chain‚ initiated by the National Treasury. The review was carried out from November 2014 to January 2016 by Isambulo AMI Strategic Consulting and Research with Pegasys and TeCon Consultants. By the time water is delivered to kitchen and bathroom taps across the country‚ it has had a long journey from raw to bulk water and on to treated drinkable water supplied to users by water boards and municipalities. Taps ran dry in several suburbs of Johannesburg and Tshwane during the hot weather of the past few days with reservoirs depleted and major pipeline bursts causing delivery problems. Average water levels in the country are now below 50% and every major city has water restrictions. The budgets of several water providers were analysed in the review‚...
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