DWEA Report Highlights Drinking Water

The Department Water and Environmental Affairs (DWEA) has released its first annual report on the quality of drinking water. The report shows that only 22 of the country’s 284 municipalities achieved more than 95% compliance with the management of quality standards.

The department’s chief director for water services, Helgard Muller, says that despite acknowledging that general performance by municipalities in the management of drinking water quality is still “unsatisfactory”, no punitive steps would be taken at this stage against those municipalities that put consumers at risk through negligence.

“We have the legal tools to follow the prosecution route to enforce accountability, but our approach for now is to work with municipalities to improve their capabilities,” says Muller.

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