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Water and Environmental Affairs Achievements: Overview, Challenges, and Recommendations

This presentation provides an overview of the achievements in water and environmental affairs, along with the challenges faced and recommendations for improvement. Topics covered include integrated water resource planning, water quality, infrastructure development and maintenance, universal access, pursuing the African agenda, improving the department's capability to deliver, and poverty alleviation/transformation.

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Water and Environmental Affairs Achievements: Overview, Challenges, and Recommendations

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  1. Presentation to the Portfolio Committee: Water and Environmental Affairs ACCOUNTING OFFICER’S OVERVIEW OF ACHIEVEMENTSChallenges and Recommendations Presentation by:Ms N. Ngele Date : 19 October 2010Venue : Parliament, Cape Town

  2. Integrated water resource planning Water Quality Infrastructure development and maintenance Ensuring universal access Pursuing African Agenda Improving the department’s capability to deliver Poverty alleviation/Transformation CONTENT OF PRESENTATION 2

  3. INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE PLANNING Reconciliation strategies Crocodile West Vaal KZN coastal areas Feasibility studies : Lesotho Highlands Phase Phase I of Mokolo augmentation water project 3

  4. INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE PLANNING Annual operating analysis of large systems Vaal Western cape Umngeni Amatola Algoa 4

  5. Water Quality (Water resources and drinking water quality) 900 Monitoring stations maintained to ensure reliable data in terms of resource quality National water resource classification system Green drop assessment : 449 Waste Treatment plants Risk assessment : 852 WTP assessed 787 Water treatment works assessed 5

  6. Infrastructure development and maintenance Vaal river system completed Construction projects: Work in progress De Hoop Nandoni Water Works Inyaka Water treatment works Hluhluwe Regional Water Scheme 6

  7. Infrastructure Development And Maintenance Construction projects: Work in progress Mdloti River Groot Letaba Moooi-Mngeni Komati Mokolo Water Olifants River Water Resource development 7

  8. Infrastructure Development And Maintenance 70% infrastructure meets design standards 63% of transferred schemes refurbished 80% compliance to levels of assurance of supply 49 Regional bulk schemes : work in progress 8

  9. Ensure Universal Access 168 Water Services Development plans 60% Municipalities supported with capacity 95% Municipalities supported with planning 20% Municipalities supported with water conversation and demand management plans 5 Provincial supported with development of provincial water plans 9

  10. Pursuing African Agenda 100% compliance with Shared water courses obligations: Joint Water Commission between RSA and Swaziland Permanent Water Commission between SA and Namibia Limpopo Water Commission between RSA Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe 10

  11. Pursuing African Agenda Joint Permanent Technical Committee between RSA and Botswana Tripartite Permanent Technical Committee between RSA, Swaziland and Mozambique Orange Senqu River Commission 11

  12. Pursuing African Agenda Participation in multilateral platforms Stockholm water week Concluded SADC hydrological Cycle Observing system Hosted 2nd Africa Water Week 12

  13. Improving the department’s capability to deliver Monitoring and evaluation framework in place 90% of staff assessed 95% of asset register reconciled Employee Wellness initiatives implemented 13

  14. Poverty Alleviation/Transformation 19 203 Jobs created under working for water 9 Women empowerment initiatives 14

  15. Challenges 15

  16. Challenges 16

  17. Challenges 17

  18. Challenges 18

  19. Challenges 19

  20. Challenges 20

  21. Challenges 21

  22. Thank You 22

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