Byline: shiv03 Government Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (Dwaf) is in the process of refining a South African National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency Bill, which will spell out the proposed functions and compositions of the anticipated National Water Resource Infrastructure Agency (NWRIA), says Deputy Director-General Dr Cornelius Ruiters.
Under the cost-recovery rubric--manifest especially in the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF)'s 1994 Water Supply and Sanitation White Paper and in a 1998 Water Pricing Policy - the logical implications are the formal privatisation or at minimum corporatisation of services and, in the process, the fragmentation of the public sector and public services.
The 122 participants were divided into 15 focus groups (M = 8 participants) by organisation and randomly assigned to five trained moderators for interviews--four groups with the Provincial Sanitation Task Team (PSTT), six with the District Municipalities and three with the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF), one with the Mvula Trust and one with the Rural Support Services (RSS).
He believes that government has relayed strong messages about its plans, given the National Budget allocation of R5,3-billion for municipal infrastructure and bulk water systems, which will be spent over the next three years, and the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry s Water for Growth and Develop- ment framework, which was launched this month.
We are working with the affected municipalities, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and the department of provincial and local governments to address the problem, Maremba said.
The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry is continuing to render technical expertise to the Beit Bridge District Council in Zimbabwe, to ensure the optimisation of water treatment processes.
The NUM would hand over a memorandum to the Department of Minerals and Energy, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Ekhuruleni Municipality, DRDGold management and the Department of Labour on Thursday.
Byline: sandesh03 The extended drought in Northern KwaZulu-Natal has forced the province's Department of Water Affairs and Forestry to apply for drought relief of R65-million from the National Treasury.
