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The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has issued non-compliance notices to 90 municipalities instructing them to correct the shortcomings identified in the Green Drop Report.
Correction action plans for only 168 of the 344 municipal wastewater systems that were found to be in a critical state by the 2022 Green Drop report have been submitted to the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS). Following the publication of the Green Drop Certification Programme report, in April 2022, the DWS issued non-compliance notices to 90 municipalities, requesting the municipalities to submit corrective action plans to address the shortcomings identified in the Green Drop report.
Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu said the reliability of municipal water and sanitation services was generally deteriorating.
The Department of Water and Sanitation on Tuesday released the interim Blue, Green, and No Drop reports into the state of water quality in the country.
The latest Blue Drop Watch Report shows that drinking water produced from some municipal water treatment systems last year did not meet the minimum standards and could have posed a potential health risk to consumers.