WATER AND SANITATION TARGERTS

1. WATER AND SANITATION TARGERTS WAYFORWARD

2. DELIVERY TRENDS Water • 1, 25m million people were served against the target of 1,5 million (1 million served in 2005/06) • There has been an overall improvement in access to water services from 59% since 1994 to 94% in the year under review

3. Challenges around Water tagerts • The moving target is influenced and defined by the following factors: • demographic changes (significant urbanization since 1994) • progressive inclusion of the housing backlog in the formal backlog figures (informal settlements and urban densification such as backyard dwellers and shared services) • reduction in household sizes with associated increases in the number of households and service needs • increased project failures and comebacks due to poor maintenance and management (this is increasingly reflected in the backlog figures of municipalities, media and public surveys) • aging infrastructure with a growing need for infrastructure replacement

4. Challenges around Water tagerts • growing water demands exceeding water resource availability as well as inadequate systems capacity to supply the water • increased service levels due to policy changes and public demand (e.g. waterborne sanitation requiring improved water supply and extensive water resource needs; many municipalities regard VIPs and street taps as inadequate) • To logically address the achievement of the targets it is essential that the above influencing factors are defined and managed. • Recent exercises in validating backlog perspectives (see Annexure-1) confirmed the above mentioned need to address these factors. The exercise also confirmed the scope of the challenge and the ability to address this.

5. Household Sanitation

6. Meeting the targets • Funding vs Delivery • 2010 target : 8/9=1200 000; 9/10; 1200 000; 950 000 !!! • Current funding allow: 220 000 per year • National Treasury : Country does not have the that kind of money!! • Need to inform Cabinet of NT inability to cater for required need and possible extension of targets • NSPU: OG Acceleration Strategy • DWAF to be directly planning approach by Municipalities based on existing funding

7. MTSF RECOMMENDATIONS • There should be just one memo to Cabinet linking basic services and housing in informal settlements, so dplg and Housing musty amend the current draft and re-submit. • This means that DWAF should not prepare another Cabinet memo talking about targets. • An IMC meeting to be held before the memo goes to Cabinet committee. • The Social Cluster workshop mentioned direction as given by a MTSF document. (attached) • DDG: R, CD: NSP and I never saw such a MTSF document circulated to DG’s stating: •              “

8. MTSF RECOMMENDATIONS • it is proposed that: • ·      provinces and localities where the target for water and sanitation can be met by 2008 and 2010 respectively should be identified; • ·      minimum standards and/or targets should be set for the rest of localities in terms of sub-RDP objectives and/or percentage targets by the respective deadlines of 2008 and 2010; • ·      all three services should aim for universal access by financial year 2012/13; and • these objectives should be attached to the housing programme by ensuring that, by 2012/13, those still in informal settlements are located in areas that can be designated for permanent housing.”  • The Cab memo mentioned in par 1 above must therefore have these bullets as recommendations. • What should happen is that before the Cabinet Lekgotla in January DWAF must prepare the necessary inputs and reports as recommended in the first two bullets. (D:P&I to lead)

9. Extract from the MTSF 2007 • Community infrastructure and universal access • While the pace of social services provision has improved, environmental issues such as rapid growth in the number of households, migration and so on conspire to undermine the impact of such work. Much more therefore needs to be done, and specific focus will need to be placed on the issue of universal access to water, sanitation and electricity, against the targets set by government (Project 10). • To meet the potable water backlog by 2008 would require R26-bn, three times the current rate of delivery and massive capacity especially in outlying or poor localities. The audit has been completed and teams set up to speed up the work. With regard to sanitation (2010), R20-bn would be required at four-and-half times the current pace of delivery. For electricity (2012), R22-bn would be required at twice the current rate of roll-out.

10. Extract from the MTSF 2007 • Given the combination of limitations in this regard – with the electricity sector having the greatest possibility to meet its target by the 2012/13 financial year – it is proposed that: • provinces and localities where the target for water and sanitation can be met by 2008 and 2010 respectively should be identified; • minimum standards and/or targets should be set for the rest of localities in terms of sub-RDP objectives and/or percentage targets by the respective deadlines of 2008 and 2010; • all three services should aim for universal access by financial year 2012/13; and • these objectives should be attached to the housing programme by ensuring that, by 2012/13, those still in informal settlements are located in areas that can be designated for permanent housing.