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.

The 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 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

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

affected by the reductions in capex and opex budgets, which have then further led to greater levels of nonrevenue water. Clearly, work is needed to get various aspects on better footing, with various approaches mentioned by Executive Mayor Campbell in her 2022 State of the City Address.

SANITATION PROVISION The City is responsible for the sewerage system and the conveyance of sewage to the wastewater treatment works operated by the Ekurhuleni Water Care Company (ERWAT). The wastewater from the City flows to five drainage districts. The City provides water services that include bulk wastewater conveyance and a highly technical and proficient wastewater treatment service to over 2 000 industries and more than 3.5 million people.

ERWAT is currently the custodian of 19 wastewater treatment plants, treating a total capacity of 696 Mℓ of wastewater per day. The main objective of wastewater treatment is generally to allow human and industrial effluents to be disposed of without danger to human health or unacceptable damage to the natural environment.

Although there are sanitation backlogs, which are mostly visible in developing agricultural holdings, the City is strategically aligning its provision of sanitation services to informal settlements with other cities and ensuring that it is sustainable.

Access to dignified, hygienic and sustainable sanitation services in the City remains a key priority to attract investors to grow the economy and includes communities of informal settlements that use chemical toilets that are not enough in number or sustainable in terms of the cost of services. It has been observed that there has been a growth of informal settlements in the City, which fosters demand for chemical toilets. With the densification of urban areas through informal settlements, greywater management affects living conditions and the environment in surrounding settlements. 2020/21 PERFORMANCE Like most of the country’s municipal entities, the City of Ekurhuleni’s Water and Sanitation Department experienced budget cuts during the 2020/21 financial year, which affected most of its projects. Notwithstanding the challenges experienced, which, among others, include the ageing sanitation infrastructure and an increased demand for sanitation services, the City recorded commendable progress. Some of the key performance highlights included the provision of chemical toilets in the area’s informal settlements. The City also exceeded its target in terms of improving the reliability of water supply across the municipal area.

INSIGHT FROM THE EXECUTIVE MAYOR

Focusing on water and sanitation, in her latest State of the City Address, Executive Mayor Alderman Tania Campbell explained:

Addressing water outages The majority of our all-too-frequent water outages are caused by drops in pressure in supply from Rand Water due to Eskom outages. To counter this, we will, by June 2023, have constructed nine additional water towers and reservoirs, in addition to the nine projects being finalised by the end of the current financial year. The well-being of our ratepayers and residents critically depends on the updating of infrastructure to stop contamination and waste. By the end of this political term, we are therefore targeting that: • none of our drinking water will flow through asbestos cement pipes anymore • major over-capacitated outfall sewer lines would also have been replaced in the southern and northern regions of Ekurhuleni • we aim for water losses to be reduced by a quarter. More immediate steps over the next financial year will include the replacement of 8 000 water meters and the replacement and upgrading of sewer pipes across the city. We will also be tightening consequence management for the illegal water connection and unauthorised consumption and damage to services, in terms of which inspection fees and stiff fines will be levied.

Ensuring water security According to a World Wildlife Fund report on ‘Scenarios for the Future of Water in South Africa’, our country is approaching physical water scarcity in 2025 and [is] expected to experience a water deficit of 17% by 2030 – a situation in which climate change could worsen. Council should therefore support ERWAT to improve the reuse and management of resources through water reclamation, green smart plants, renewable energy initiatives, sludge beneficiation, in-line turbines, just to name a few. However, this is an entity from which we expect much greater ingenuity and motivation to fund a more significant portion of their maintenance backlogs and obsolete equipment replacement off their balance sheet. Investment in further treatment capacity expansion to support development in the City alone requires an estimated R2.5 billion over the next five years, for which we are considering the utilisation of the build-operate-transfer mechanism.

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