WATER & SANITATION
ENSURING SECURITY OF SUPPLY
The provision of water and sanitation is vital to the functioning of industry and, indeed, the most basic of daily needs of every citizen. The City of Ekurhuleni is taking great strides towards ensuring an adequate and reliable supply of these basic services.
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he City of Ekurhuleni is both a designated water services authority and water service provider in accordance with the Water Services Act (No. 108 of 1997). The service provider functions include the provision of water and sanitation services to consumers within the Ekurhuleni municipal area and operating and maintaining the infrastructure. As a water services authority, the City has a duty to provide
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water and sanitation to all consumers or potential consumers in its area of jurisdiction. This duty is subject to the availability of water resources, equitable allocation, payment of services by consumers, water conservation, land situation, debt management actions, and the economics of providing the service. The City implements the provision of water and sanitation through its Water and Sanitation Department. The 2020/21
City-wide Service Delivery Budget an Implementation Plan of this department has nine water and sanitation provision performance indicators. The total cumulative system input (water purchased from Rand Water) for the period from July 2020 to June 2021 was 355 078 693 kℓ, compared with 348 544 955 kℓ between July 2019 and June 2020 – reflecting a 6 533 738 kℓ yearon-year comparison increase, following the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, population growth and socio-economic development. The City’s strategy aims to reduce water demand by minimising water wastages and increase water-use efficiency in order to ensure the longterm balance between demand and supply. The implementation of capital infrastructure projects for water supply augmentation has unfortunately been
