New task team to review municipal water, sanitation service delivery mechanisms

A new nationally coordinated task team is being established to review service delivery mechanisms for water and sanitation services in South Africa. The task team, comprising the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), the Department Corporative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) and the South African Local Government Association (Salga), is one of the resolutions adopted during a DWS-hosted two-day water summit last month, where the 144 municipalities that are water services authorities (WSA’s) convened.