The Amathole District Municipality needs more than R3.3bn to address its water and sanitation backlogs.ADM’s annual allocation for water supply and sanitation at present is just more than R600m.
The Eastern Cape has the second-highest percentage of households in the country a whopping 19.5% who have no access to piped water in their areas. And many of these households have to share their water source dams, rivers and streams in rural areas with animals.