Provincial Water Supply and Sanitation perspective

Province	Water Supply			Sanitation (excl. buckets)
	Backlog	Required Delivery Rate	Acceleration Required to achieve Target	Backlog	Required Delivery Rate	Acceleration Required to achieve Target
	(x 1000 households)	(x1000 hh per year)		(x 1000 households)	(x1000 hh per year)
EC	308	154	250%	695	174	450%
FS	76	38	380%	187	47	On target See note-1
GT	212	106	to be verified	110	27	On Target See note-2
KZN	707	354	700%	974	243	400%
LP	396	198	700%	767	192	1000%
MP	250	125	to be verified	492	123	note-3
NW	103	52	350%	401	100	850%
NC	13	6	note-4	41	10	On target See note-4
WC	10	5	note-5	33	8	On target See note-5
RSA	2 074	1 037	300%	3 698	924	500%
Notes:
1	on target, subject to maintaining bucket momentum to address the basic sanitation challenge
2	on target, subject to focus on historic backlog in formal area and providing dry sanitation
3	to be verified; Census figures challenged by municipalities; present figures exceed previous baseline
4	on target at provincial level; may not achieve target in Kgalagadi DM
5	on target at provincial level; may not achieve target for farm workers & outlying areas

Critical Observations:

· Above figures only reflect basic services infrastructure backlogs. A serious concern is the growth in the backlog due to project comebacks, poor operation and maintenance. The DWAF database has now been extended to track this challenge separately and initial indications are that these “management backlogs” are equal to or exceed the historic infrastructure backlogs, with major implication on budget requirements and achievement of the sector targets.

· Above figures only reflect backlogs in formal settlements and not in informal / squatter areas, which require housing programme solutions.

· Above figures only reflect the present situation and not future growth and economic development requirements.