Drought Committee needs to brief the nation on progress every fortnight
19 November 2015
The DA calls the inter-ministerial committee on the drought to brief the country at least every two weeks during the summer period on the effects of the water shortages and the measures taken by government to mitigate the situation that threatens the day-to-day lives and livelihoods of so many South African people.
Authorities in the Free State and KZN announced just this week that it would implement scheduled water-shedding across several municipalities. Communities in these provinces now find themselves without water, not just because of the drought and high temperatures, but because of the years of insufficient planning and poor management by the ANC government.
This failure is evidenced in KZN where, following shortages in the Hazelmere Dam area, the government was supposed to have completed the raising of the Dam by September 2014. However, construction on this project only started one year after the promised completion date.