Water Wheel Sept/Oct 2024: Water And Sanitation

Abstract

Water and sanitation services – how are we doing? Over the past few months, StatsSA has released a raft of publications on the findings of three different surveys. The main results from Census 2022, giving national and provincial totals for various demographic and socio-economic indicators, were published on 10 October 2023. More detailed ‘Provincial profiles’ , drilling down to municipal level, were released on 27 June 2024. In the interim, the preliminary results of the ‘Non-financial census of municipalities for the year ended 30 June 2022’ were published on 26 March 2024. This census, designed to measure selected aspects of service delivery of municipalities, has taken place every year since 2002. All South Africa’s 257 municipalities – 205 local municipalities (LM), 44 district municipalities (DM) and 8 metro municipalities (MM) – participated in the 2022 survey. And then there’s the annual General Household Survey (GHS), which collected data from 20 927 households countrywide in 2023.

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