Parliamentary submission on the eradication of the Bucket Toilet System 22

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Parliamentary submission on theeradication of
the Bucket Toilet System 22 23 February
2007Cllr. Derrick Ndlovu
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Introduction

• Roughly 4 million households without access to
  basic sanitation are still to be served (2010)
• Of this amount, roughly 132 000 households in
  formalized areas are still using the bucket
  system (/- 4 of the total household backlog)
  these are to be eradicated by Dec 2007
• The largest concentration of buckets still to be
  eradicated are in the Free State, Eastern Cape
  North West Provinces
• Mpumalanga Province has already eradicated
  buckets in their formalized areas at end 2006

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Achievements

• 57 377 buckets were removed in the 06/07
  financial year up to January 2007.
• 24 136 buckets were removed between April and
  June 2006, 18 002 between July and September
  2006, while 8 427 were removed between October
  and December 2006. In January 2007 alone, a
  further 6 812 buckets were removed.
• (DWAF Technical MinMec Report February 2007)

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Achievements

• In Mpumalanga Province the bucket system has been
  eradicated in all of the formalized households
  this provincial programme has seen 18 862
  households across five municipalities served (523
  households with VIPs in water scarce areas and 18
  339 households with waterborne toilets)

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Lessons Learnt

• In Mpumalanga the approach was to appoint
  emerging contactors in relation to the
  construction of toilet top structures in
  designated locations according to the sewer
  network layout plan, and professional consultants
  undertook the layout and construction of the
  sewer bulk line and house connections.
• Community participation in the programme was
  ensured via the Local Municipalities and their
  Ward Structures and municipal technical sections
  had designated officials from within the
  municipalities, to work in conjunction with the
  appointed Project Managers and Contractors under
  the WSA, DWAF and DLGH Programme Managers.

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Lessons Learnt

• Progress reports were completed weekly and signed
  off at project level by the Contractors, Project
  Managers, and Municipal Officials.
• Weekly site meetings were held to assess progress
  and bottlenecks, and monthly progress meetings
  held between all provincial stakeholders.

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Combination of professional emerging service
providers on waterborne bucketeradication
household networks and bulk plant
Lessons Learnt
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Challenges

• Capital MIG fund allocations must be matched by
  increased municipal operating budgets (since
  waterborne sewage systems make use of water which
  is a municipal operating trading account)
• Integrated planning within municipal WSDPs
  IDPs must be strengthened in line with Provincial
  bucket eradication strategies Housing linkages
• Bucket eradication project feasibility studies
  should be preceding the design implementation
  of MIG bucket eradication projects so as to
  prevent poor investment to municipalities their
  constituents

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Challenges

• The monitoring evaluation of MIG bucket
  eradication projects being implemented must be
  strengthened by increasing local level municipal
  capacity involvement
• Municipalities capacity ability to oversee
  manage appointed bucket eradication service
  providers must be strengthened
• Increased municipal capacity to ensure
  sustaining, maintaining extending existing
  waterborne sewage in light of the bucket
  eradication programme must be ensured to prevent
  future system failures negative water quality
  environmental impacts

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Recommendations

1. Include the sustainability aspects of bucket
   eradication in the National Sanitation Policy
   revision
2. Ensure that there is increased alignment between
   the Department of Housing sanitation sector
3. Establish a mandatory Sanitation Component of the
   MIG so as to ensure eradication of all sanitation
   by 2010 beyond the bucket eradication programme
4. Match capital MIG fund allocations with increased
   municipal operating budgets
5. Develop endorse Provincial bucket eradication
   strategies improve Mun planning in WSDPs IDPs

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Recommendations

1. Ensure Municipal bucket eradication feasibility
   studies are conducted
2. Increase monitoring of Municipal bucket
   eradication project implementation improve data
   capture systems
3. Increase municipal capacity to ensure sustaining,
   maintaining extending existing waterborne
   sewage to prevent future system failures
   negative impacts
4. Ensure on-going financial, operating
   maintenance requirements are met
5. Improve sector support, monitoring regulation
   for all forms of sanitation

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Service after deliverya better life - ?
Bucket system replaced with a leaking
sub-standard waterborne system. The household was
forced to disconnect the water supply due to
municipal charges for water and therefore
resorted to using the old bucket to fetch water
at a standpipe to pour flush the toilet as
needed...
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THANK YOU