Structure of the presentation

1. WATER QUALITY PRESENTATION PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE WATER AFFAIRS AND FORESTRY local government perspective BYWILLIAM MORAKA

2. Structure of the presentation • Water Chain in South Africa • Benchmarking Results Study • LG Challenges • Recommendations

3. WHERE DOES WQ START 1st Tier National security of supply 2nd Tier Regional supply to WSA’s 3rd Tier Local service delivery and customer management SOURCE BULK CRITICAL POINT (Safe Drinking Water) DISTRIBUTION CONSUMER

4. ZIMBABWE MOZAMBIQUE 2. Provincial BOTSWANA 1. Boundaries Water Management 4. Area Boundaries 3. 5. Pretoria WATER MANAGEMENT AREA Johannesburg 10. NAMIBIA 1. LIMPOPO 2. LUVUVHU AND LETABA 8. 9. 6. 3. CROCODILE (WEST) AND MARICO 4. OLIFANTS 7. 5. INKOMATI 6. USUTHU TO MHLATUZE Bloemfontein 7. THUKELA 13. 14. Durban 11. 8. UPPER VAAL 9. MIDDLE VAAL 10. LOWER VAAL 11. MVOTI TO UMZIMKULU 12. MZIMVUBU TO KEISKAMMA 17. 12. 13. UPPER ORANGE 14. LOWER ORANGE 15. 15. FISH TO TSITSIKAMMA 16. East London GOURITZ 19. 16. 17. OLIFANTS/DOORN 18. BREEDE Cape Port Elizabeth 18. 19. BERG Town WRM: CMA’s

5. Returns 79% Drinking Water Quality Reliability 1.6 Monitoring programme in place 18 16 Yes 14 No No data 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 Metro District Local Totals

6. Returns 63% Reliability 2.1

7. Returns 58% No license 24

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9. CHALLENGES FACED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT • Spillages onto the river systems • Competing demands for water – domestic, environmental and industrial • Water and wastewater treatment • Meeting National drinking water quality standard – SANS 241 • National wastewater discharge quality standard – DWAF General Authorisation (General Wastewater Limits)

10. CHALLENGES FACED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT • WSAs often not aware of necessary requirement to set up an effective Drinking Water Quality Management Programme (DWQMP) • Management and monitoring of drinking water and wastewater services often inadequate • Infrastructure is poorly maintained • WSAs may be hindered by institutional capacity problems – insufficient and untrained staff, budgetary constraints

11. CHALLENGES FACED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT • WSAs often not aware of necessary requirement to set up an effective Drinking Water Quality Management Programme (DWQMP) • Management and monitoring of drinking water and wastewater services often inadequate • Infrastructure is poorly maintained • WSAs may be hindered by institutional capacity problems – insufficient and untrained staff, budgetary constraints

12. CHALLENGES FACED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT • WSAs often not aware of necessary requirement to set up an effective Drinking Water Quality Management Programme (DWQMP) • Management and monitoring of drinking water and wastewater services often inadequate • Infrastructure is poorly maintained • WSAs may be hindered by institutional capacity problems – insufficient and untrained staff, budgetary constraints

13. CHALLENGES FACED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT • Several WWTW’s are approaching or have reached capacity • Housing developments in certain areas are outpacing the ability to provide adequate treatment capacity • Equipment is ageing and some needs to be replaced • Risk of asset stripping through sustained inadequate capital funding

14. CHALLENGES FACED BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT cont. • Appropriate interventions not in place to deal with poor drinking water quality • Urban (surface water) vs Rural (groundwater)

15. RESOURCES NEEDED MEET DRINKING WATER QUALITY REQUIREMENTS • Require accredited laboratory facilities • Require appropriately qualified staff • Require appropriate number of staff • Require a supply of laboratory consumables

16. RESOURCES MEET DRINKING WATER QUALITY REQUIREMENTS • Various sources of funding can be leveraged: • WSA Internal funding • SMIF funding • Masibambane • CBG • Equitable share • Donor funding

17. HOW TO IMPROVE ACCEPTABLE DRINKING WATER QUALITY? • Commitment to drinking water quality management and multi-stakeholder involvement • System analysis and management • Support programmes (Awareness and training; Community involvement and awareness; and documentation and reporting) • Review and audit (data evaluation and drinking water quality audits)

18. PRACTICAL PROGRAMMES • Free State Dept. of Local Govt. & Housing programme: • Run by CSIR • Water and treated wastewater sampling and analysis monthly • Enables identification of problems and highlights service delivery improvements

19. SALGA INITIATIVES • NATIONAL BENCHMARKING INITATIVE (SALGA, DWAF AND WRC) • WATER SERVICES PROVIDER NETWORK • PARTNERING WITH SAAWU

20. The Water Services Provider Network Structure

21. RECOMMENDATIONS • SHORT-TERM: • Metros to assist the WSAs in WQM • Waste Water Management • Training of operators at Water and Treatment works level • Highlight the lack of funding in drinking water quality with the premiers Office • Awareness creation and communication of responsibilities for urgent cases

22. RECOMMENDATIONS • MEDIUM-TERM: • Implementation of drinking water situational assessments • Initiation of provincial drinking water quality consultative audits • Conduct an audit of Accredited laboratories in the Country • Private Sector involvement

23. RECOMMENDATIONS • LONGER-TERM: • WSAs undertake drinking water quality compliance monitoring Programmes assisted by DWAF • Benchmarking Process to assess the quality of the data on Drinking Water Quality • Frequency of consultative audits decreases as conformance improves • Where there is still lack of adherence to monitoring requirements, then the DWAF intervenes

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