Overview: 20082009 Annual report

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Overview 2008/2009 Annual report

• Presentation by
• Ms N Ngele
• the Acting Director- General
• Department Water Affairs (DWA)

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Presentation Outline

• Key highlights
• Key challenges
• Available options

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Key highlights year under review
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Key highlights year under review
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Key challenges

• Inadequate investment and funding
• Water resources infrastructure
• Water Conservation Water Demand Management
• Deterioration of transferred infrastructure to
  municipalities
• Funding for refurbishment of category B and C
  plantations
• Funding for forest enterprise development

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Key challenges

• Regulation
• Compliance and enforcement
• Curbing unlawful water use
• Enforcing raw and drinking water quality
  standards
• Monitoring
• Compliance to standards
• Internal capacity to monitor
• Reducing forest fires

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Key challenges

• Support to local government
• Balancing the support to municipalities whilst
  executing the regulatory obligations
• Delays in finalising transfers of infrastructure
  to municipalities
• Skills shortage cross cutting (technical)

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Key challenges

• Transformation of the sector
• Implementation water allocation reform
• Land reform and post settlement support to
  communities (including the uncertainty on
  long-term ownership of forest lands)
• Financial viability of water management
  institutions
• Alignment of systems and processes

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Available options

• Implementing the Water for Growth and Development
  Framework
• Review current funding model
• Participate in the current discussions held by
  Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
  (COGTA) on amending legislation
• Learning academy
• Occupation Specific Dispensation Programme (OSDP)

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Available options

• Continue and accelerate institutional realignment
  project
• Alignment of water, land reform and rural
  development programmes
• Invest in
• Systems
• capacity building for management
• leadership and talent management
• Alignment of business planning processes with
  performance management
• Response plan to issues raised by the
  Auditor-General

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• Thank you

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