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

2. CONTENT OF PRESENTATION
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 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
Jobs created under working for water
9 Women empowerment initiatives 14

15. Challenges Challenges Recommendations
Aging infrastructure and inadequate operations and maintenance
Strengthen cooperation with COGTA, Provinces and municipalities
There is a need for an accelerated effort to address aging infrastructure and funding for operations and maintenance (waste treatment plants) within the context of the Local government turnaround strategy
Intensify our participation in continuous improvement plans, development of IDPs at Local Government level
Ring fencing funds for operations and maintenance
Improve revenue management and debt management to deal with water resources infrastructure maintenance backlog 15

16. Challenges Challenges Recommendations Water pollution
Increase implementation of compliance , monitoring and enforcement measures
Regular on site inspections, follow through and follow up system 16

17. Challenges Challenges Recommendations Water losses/wastage
Build partnership with the agricultural sector to fast track the implementation of robust water efficiency measures.
Agricultural sector to invest on on-farm water management
Intensify compliance , monitoring and enforcement
Validation and verification of users to deal with illegal abstraction
Partner with Local Government water conservation and demand management 17

18. Challenges Challenges Recommendations
Inadequate/inappropriate systems and financial controls
Lack of expertise to run the trading account
Insufficient focus on financial management and contract management
Implement a turnaround strategy for the trading accounting using external experts to improve financial management 18

19. Challenges Challenges Recommendations Delays in execution
Improve planning
Improve performance management
Improve prioritization 19

20. Challenges Challenges Recommendations Insufficient funding
Reprioritization of projects
Rescheduling of projects
Selection of high impact projects
Leverage Overseas Development Assistance 20

21. Challenges Challenges Recommendations
Insufficient capability to deliver
Improve recruitment and selection techniques and speeding up filling of vacancies
Streamlining reporting lines for the Regulation function
Targeted training and development
Develop and implement an organizational wide sourcing strategy
Partner with SETA to leverage funds for skills development
Ensure that water needs are mainstreamed in Sector Skills Plan
Apply for exemption on Occupation Specific Dispensation provisions 21

22. Thank You 22 22