CEOs message & news from SA water sector

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Fluid Thoughts Fluid Thoughts WRC CEO, Dhesigen Naidoo On 22 March we once again celebrate World Water Day. This year is even more special as South Africa’s Minister of Water & Environmental Affairs, Mme Edna Molewa, also hosts her SADC Colleague Ministers as the region celebrates this important day in South Africa this year. As a country we represent the global microcosm in many unique ways – not the least being an example of the crossroad between the developed and the developing world. While we have challenges typical of the developed world, like ageing infrastructure and the water quality challenges associated with hundreds of years of resource intensive industrial activity, we still have the developing world challenges of non-universal coverage of water supply and sanitation and limited developed water infrastructure to support new entrants into the economy. This is reflected by the trends in the water balance which increasingly move in the direction of projected negative water balances where supply is being rapidly overtaken by increasing demand.

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