Current service delivery challenges for municipalities with regard to water management

摘要

Although public service spending is continuing in the short to medium term, capital projects within the local government sector may eventually also either be postponed or their implementation periods may be extended. Pressure on existing infrastructure will increase, resulting, in the case of waste water treatment works, in discharges of waste to the rivers exceeding the discharge limits. The planning processes for replacing or increasing the capacity of existing infrastructure within the local government sector, at least, must and should continue. This would include all feasibility studies and obtaining all environmental authorisations.