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Department of Water Affairs (Mpumalanga) Department of Water Affairs (Mpumalanga) Support and Intervention to Local Support and Intervention to Local

Government InstitutionsGovernment Institutions

Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on Water and Environmental Affairs

02 September, Cape Town

Regional Head: Mpumalanga

Fanyana Mntambo

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CONTENTSCONTENTS

• Introduction• Overview of past Water Affairs

achievements in supporting Local Government

• Overview of Water Affairs planned Interventions and or Current Support

• Challenges• Way Forward

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ACRONYMSACRONYMS

• SPCD – Social Protection & Community Development

• LG5YSA – Local Government 5 Year Strategic Agenda

• SALGA – South African Local Government Association

• SWD – SALGA, Water Boards, Departments

• WUA – Water Users Association

• CGTA – Co-operative Governance & Traditional Affairs

• EID – Economic and Infrastructure Development

• WC/WDM – Water Conservation Water Demand Management

• WSA – Water Services Authority

• WSP – Water Services Provider

• WSDP – Water Services Development Plan

• STRIP – Short Term Intervention Programme

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ACRONYMSACRONYMS

• IDP – Integrate Development Plan• BP – Business Plan• LM – Local Municipality• DM – District Municipality• MIG – Municipal Infrastructure Grant• CSO – Civil Society Organizations• LG & H – Local Government and Housing• O&M – Operations and Maintenance• DWWWM – Drinking Water and Waste Water Management• RPMS – Regulatory Performance Management System• WB – water borne• RDP – Restructuring and Development Programme• RBIG – Regional Bulk Infrastructure Grant

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INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION

• Department of Water Affairs, as a national sphere supports Local Government (WSAs) in the context of the constitution.

• The Department’s mandate in terms of the Water Services Act is to provide a framework for providing sustainable water and sanitation services by Water Services Authorities and Water Service Providers.

• The National Water Act provides for the regulation of bulk water abstraction and effluent discharges in to the rivers.

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DWA DWA PAST SUPPORT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WSAs) (2006 – 2008)

Functional Area

Nature of support Beneficiary WSA

Municipal Planning (WSDP/ IDP)

• Provision of guidelines for the development of WSDP

• Make inputs to IDP in forms of Water Services and Water Resources

All WSAs

17 WSA’s. (excl. Bushbuckridge-still falling in Limpopo)

WCWD Management

• Assessments of WC/WDM status quo/ practices

• Development of WC/WDM BP• Implementation of the 4 WC/WDM

pillars. (Technical, Social, Financial & Legal/ Institutional Interventions)

• Rain Water Harvesting for food gardening (augmentation of existing water supply)

Nkomazi LM, Dr. JS Moroka LM, Albert Luthuli LM, Bushbuckridge LM

Dr. JS MorokaSkhwahlane

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DWA PAST SUPPORT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WSAs) DWA PAST SUPPORT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WSAs) (2006 – 2008)(2006 – 2008)

Functional Area


Water Services Bylaws. (continue)

• Provision of the DWA model bylaws

• STRIP

All WSA’s

Thembisile NkomaziDr JS Moroka

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DWA PAST SUPPORT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WSAs)DWA PAST SUPPORT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WSAs)

Functional Area Nature of support Beneficiary WSA

Water Sector Policies • Free Basic Water• Provision of water on privately

owned land (Intermediaries)

•All WSAs

Institutional Arrangements

• Municipal Systems Act Section 78 implementation pertaining to water services. Section 78 (1) completed.

• Establishment of Water Users Associations (WUA)

• Four In the Olifants• Two in the Inkomati

All WSA’s

Olifants : Sekhukhune, Ilanga & Tubatse & Loskop. Inkomati: Upper Komati and Elands.

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Infrastructure Development

• Bulk infrastructure – Feasibility studies: Western Highveld Feasibility Studies and the Lowveld feasibility studies

• Bulk infrastructure development - Augmentation of existing schemes: package plants and boreholes

• Acornhoek and Inyaka Bulk Schemes

• Bloemendal pipeline• Hoxane Scheme• Mjejane Bulk

All Municipalities

Delmas, Bushbuckridge

Bushbuckridge

DelmasBushbuckridgeNkomazi

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Functional Area


Capacity Building

• Training of treatment process controllers through FET colleges

• Civil Society Organisations (CSO) – training in Basic project management and basic computer skills

All plant operators in the 3 districts including new recruits

21 CSO members spread across the 3 districts

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Functional Area


Water Sector Collaboration

• Collaboration with the Province through clusters, PCF, MUNIMEC and CGTA in the context of the Local Government 5year Strategic Agenda district sector

All WSAs and Water Sector partners

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Functional Area


Customer Care • Establishment of customer care offices

Bushbuckridge and Nkomazi

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DWA DWA PAST SUPPORT TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT (WSAs) (2007/08 –2009/10)


Operation and Maintenance (O&M)

• Development of O&M manuals for the treatment plants

• Refurbishment of transferred Schemes (subsidy and/or human resource

Albert Luthuli, Bushbuckridge, Dr JS Moroka, Mbombela, NkomaziThembisile

Drinking Water and Waste Water Management (DWWWM)

• DWWW monitoring and audits • Blue / Green Drop

assessments and Mbombela – Three towns won the Blue Drop

All WSAs

Working for Water • 10914 ha of Invasive Alien Plants have been cleared.

• 2815 (April-July 2009) jobs have been created

All municipalities in Ehlanzeni District and Albert Luthuli in Gert Sibande

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Drought Relief • Equipping of boreholes and /or erection of new boreholes, tankering of water, etc

• R10 million allocated to drill boreholes in all the municipalities

• Challenge water sales

All municipalities

National youth service

• Skill development of the youth in process controlling in waste water treatment plants

All municipalities

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DWA OVERVIEW OF THE PLANNED INTERVENTIONS/ DWA OVERVIEW OF THE PLANNED INTERVENTIONS/ CURRENT SUPPORT)CURRENT SUPPORT)

Functional Area


Waste water infrastructure refurbishment programme.

Boreholes

• Refurbishment of ageing and overloaded Waste Water Treatment Plants in order to ensure compliance to standards.

• 91 boreholes have been refurbished.

• Installation of disinfection systems in 28 boreholes

Albert LuthuliBushbuckridgeDr JS MorokaMbombelaNkomaziThembisile

Bushbuckridge

Bushbuckridge

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DWA OVERVIEW OF CURRENT REGULATORY ACTIVITIESDWA OVERVIEW OF CURRENT REGULATORY ACTIVITIES


Water Sector Regulation (Reporting)

• Regulation of WSAs in line with the RPMS (Regulatory Performance Management System)

•All WSAs

Non-compliance interventions

Issuance of 20 non- compliance notices and 1 directive due to one or more of the following:

1.Not metering raw bulk water abstraction volume

2.Non-compliance to effluent discharge standards

3.Failing sewer pump stations

Emalahleni (also for a Directive),Kungwini, Greater Sekhukhune, Umjindi, Bushbuckridge, Albert Luthuli, Nkomazi, Mbombela, Emalahleni, Emakhazeni, Govan Mbeki, Delmas, Greater Tubatse, Thaba-Chweu, Bushbuckridge Water Board

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DWA OVERVIEW OF CURRENT REGULATORY ACTIVITIESDWA OVERVIEW OF CURRENT REGULATORY ACTIVITIES

Functional Area


Criminal/Court cases

• No court (criminal) cases has been opened by DWA against any Municipality but the following cases were opened:

• Delmas Police Station: MPC Chicks for unlawful water use and failure to comply with directive.

• Marble Hall Police Station: Joan Botes for unlawful water use and the docket is with the prosecutor.

• Warmbaths Police Station: De Kuil Brodery for unlawful water and unauthorised building of a dam. Docket with prosecutor

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Functional Area


Criminal/Court cases

• Groblersdal Police station: Mr. Deon Meyer for unauthorised building of a dam. Case with prosecutor.

• Ogies Police Station: P. Herbst. Police still investigating

• Barberton Police Station: A.P Vos & Seuns for unlawful building of a dam. Police still investigating.

CRIMINAL/COURT CASES cont….CRIMINAL/COURT CASES cont….

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DWA OVERVIEW OF THE PLANNED INTERVENTIONS DWA OVERVIEW OF THE PLANNED INTERVENTIONS AND CURRENT SUPPORTAND CURRENT SUPPORT)

Support/ Intervention


Working for Water • The Working for Water programme operates at the Albert Luthuli, Mbombela, Umjindi, Thaba Chweu, High lands, Bushbuckridge and Nkomazi municipal areas.

• Creating employment opportunities for women in the Working for Water programme.

• Contractors currently employed are 8320

• Contractors to be exited are 104.

• 1717 of the contractors are females, 647 are youth and 168 are disabled.

61% for Working for Water in the first quarter during 2009/10

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CHALLENGESCHALLENGES

• DWWWM challenges - treatment plants that require refurbishment, operations and maintenance as well as upgrading of those that are beyond their carrying capacity. The latest study has shown that almost all our sewage works in the province are overloaded.

• Monitoring systems data not submitted to the Department waste water quality assurance.

• Most plants do not have authorizations.• Skills shortage and vacancy rate of operators.• Lack of proper planning and not ring fencing funding for by

WSAs – WSDP, WCWDM, Asset Management Plans, O&M, etc

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DELMAS

• In 2007/2008, the department spent about R18 million to refurbish the boreholes and install a temporal treatment works of 12mg/l/day.

• The recommendations presented to the municipality by DWA were not fully implemented.

• The current diarrhea cases stand at 1664 as at 25 August 2009.

• Upon investigation, it was discovered that chlorine levels were very high and that a borehole from MPC chicken was contaminated where a lot of cases were seen.

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CHALLENGES cont….CHALLENGES cont….

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Reporting Facility 14/08/2009 Cumulative 15/08/2009 16/08/09 17/08/20093 42 2 5 8

Botleng Clinic 13 58 17 27 18Botleng Clinic Ext 3 5 11 Closed Closed 12F.C Dumat Clinic 4 21 Closed Closed 10Delmas Pharmacy 4 57 6 6 11C.J Williams Pharmacy 71 204 70 43 46Bakavor(Farm) 3 15 Closed Closed 1Rosgro 17 52 Closed Closed 7Day Break(Farm) 5 13 Closed Closed 8Medicross 10 10 9 5 7Total 135 483 104 86 128

Statistics cases of the diarrhea:

Reporting Facility 18/08/2009 Cumulative 19/08/2009 20/08/092 59 15 6

Botleng Clinic 15 125 2 11Botleng Clinic Ext 3 4 24 9 6F.C Dumat Clinic 7 37 6 6Delmas Pharmacy 13 93 0 9C.J Williams Pharmacy 81 484 66 58Bakavor(Farm) 1 17 1 0Rosgro 0 59 2 3Day Break(Farm) 4 25 1 3Medicross 7 38 3 0Total 134 961 105 102


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Reporting Facility 21/08/2009 22/08/2009 23/08/09 24/08/2009 25/08/20094 7 3 10 2

Botleng Clinic 14 6 8 21 10Botleng Clinic Ext 3 25 Closed Closed 6 2F.C Dumat Clinic 5 Closed Closed 4 2Delmas Pharmacy 8 2 6 1 3C.J Williams Pharmacy 50 40 33 33 61Bakavor(Farm) 0 1 0 0 0Rosgro 0 0 0 1 2Day Break(Farm) 2 0 0 1 2Medicross 3 3 2 11 14Total 111 59 52 88 98No one has been hospitalised and DWA continues to monitor the water quality

• Poor water quality and non compliant waste water discharge.• Funding for backlog is currently at R360.920 million and R1.4 million

shortfall for water and sanitation after taking into consideration the MIG over the MTEF period

• Sanitation backlog currently is at 2 303 506 (population) 481 938 (household) and the 2010 target will not be realised (moving target).

• Lack of payment of services • Relationship between the Water Board and the municipalities

Statistics cases of the diarrhea:


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RECOMMENDATIONSRECOMMENDATIONS

• The Department of Water Affairs will strengthen the IGR approach and framework focusing on the following broad areas, as a way forward

• Increased collaboration with the provincial government – Water Sector Forum,LG5YSA.

• Reconfiguration of the Bushbuckridge Water Board through consultations with the provincial government

• Increase the collaboration with Water User Associations through the Water User Association Forum meetings.

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RECOMMENDATIONS Cont..RECOMMENDATIONS Cont..

• Engaging the province to intervene in WSA’s that are failing to discharge their mandate in terms of service delivery.

• Increased regulation of the WSA’s (support will be regulatory driven).• Implementation of recommendations from the Ministerial (COGTA)

task team on community protests report in Mpumalanga• Supporting municipalities to get authorizations for their plants (10%).• Rand Water to assists Delmas Municipality with Water Management.

WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS – BUSHBUCKRIDGE WATER BOARD

• Water Board to have representatives as Board members from Local Government.

• Change of the current name from Bushbuckridge Water Board to the proposed name of Mpumalanga Water Board

• Three water boards to service Mpumalanga province.

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RECOMMENDATIONS Cont..RECOMMENDATIONS Cont..

• Province to facilitate the signing of the Service Level Agreement• Bulk MIG and equitable share funding to be ring fenced to water boards• Ehlanzeni Water Board to take over functions of the entire province over a

five year or more period.• Increasing funding for the regional bulk water supply projects i.e the Inyaka

and Acornhoek bulk projects.

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THANK YOUTHANK YOU

department of water affairs (mpumalanga) support and intervention to local government institutions

Documents

water boards

sustainable water

water services act

forms of water services

water services authorities

water resourcesall wsas

national water act

water service providers