There is no outstanding legislation before the committee.

The committee has embarked on Provincial Study tours since 1998 the only outstanding Province to visit is Western Cape.

The committee also wants to do follow-up tours to the following provinces:

Eastern Cape

KwaZulu-Natal

Mpumalanga

Limpopo

African approach to Water

Youth and women in water

• Human Resource Development and transformation in DWAF
• Restructuring of Commercial and Indigenous Forest
• Briefing by Rand Water
• Briefing by National Sanitation Task team
• Briefing on transfer of waterschemes

The Portfolio Committee wants to make the following recommendations:

1. The Portfolio Committee needs to be better resourced to do its oversight work in a proper and effective way;
2. There is a need for more portfolio-related training for members, especially in certain technical aspects of the portfolio;
3. The interaction between the Minister and the Portfolio Committee needs to improve;
4. Notwithstanding notable improvement in the delivery of sanitation, factors still contributing to a slower pace of delivery needs to be removed as a matter of urgency if the eradication of the backlog needs to be realised within the timeframes set out by the Department;

In conclusion, it is the opinion of the Portfolio Committee that, notwithstanding the fact that there are still a lot of challenges, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and other role-players in the water and forestry sector are on track to ensure the availability and supply of water on a national level, to ensure equitable and efficient provision of water services at local level, and also to promote sustainable forestry management.