Dept to complete water, sanitation master plan in 2018/19

The Department of Water and Sanitation will only deliver a water plan for South Africa at the end of the 2018/19 financial year. “I am aware that we committed to complete the water plan by the end of August 2016; however, owing to the large scale of the work, extensive data, resource requirements and the need for broad consultations, the final plan . . . can only be delivered at the end of the 2018/19 financial year,” Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane noted in response to a Parliamentary question by ANC MP Lulu Johnson.