PGDPM: ADVANCED FORMATIVE

PROJECT ASSESSMENT 2

MANAGEMENT
Ncanywa Sinovuyo Asanda
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Question 1
1. A
The United Nations General Assembly passed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in
2015, which established the seventeen global development goals. One of the declared goals is to
achieve universal access to and sustainable management of water and sanitation. This goal seeks
to ensure safe drinking water and sanitation for everyone in the world by focusing on the long-
term stewardship of water resources, effluent, and ecological systems, as well as acknowledging
the significance of a conducive environment.

According to the article, this goal is jeopardized because the citizens of Tshwane were denied
water for two days. According to the publication, this is not the first incidence of a lack of water
and sanitation management. The people's access to clean drinking water may be hindered by a
lack of sanitation and waste disposal facilities. Poor water quality affects many aspects of
humanity, most notably when it comes to the spread of disease-causing organisms that cause
death.

The city must enhance its water supply and sanitation management to ensure that residents
have access to clean, drinkable water at all time, and this is a basic requirement. This will result
in enormous improvements in human well-being, national economic prosperity, and global
sustainability in all its forms.

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 2.
Sanitation and safe drinking water are a basic human right. No one is able to survive unless they
have access to clean drinking water and prober sanitation management. The City of
Tshwane water supply and services has over the years faced detrimental infrastructural and
distribution challenges including inadequate resources, rapid loss of water, and
sanitation management challenges. Insufficient water supply and service evidently causes public
reactions, which are often the root of community conflict.

In the City of Tshwane, the water & sanitation sector is severely inefficient and unsustainable.
There have been no initiatives in recent years to improve the quality of water and sanitary
issues. This has resulted in a disturbance of livelihoods and shutdowns of businesses, which may
contribute to public health issues and terrible economy for the city.

Sustainable Development Goal 6 demands for universal water and sanitation access by 2030. If
the objective is met, all people will have safe and clean potable water, toilets, and basic
sanitation in order to live a healthy, sound, and respectful lifestyles.

Given Gauteng's escalating water difficulties and overall scarcity, as well as Rand Water's
implementation of water-related constraints, municipalities are becoming more and more vital
in having an actionable water management plan. Tshwane is in a unique position in this regard.
In contrast to other Gauteng municipalities, the City has the resources as well as the ability to
increase its own water-generation capacity and perhaps lessen its dependence on Rand Water.

This Business Plan proposes strategies for implementing sustainable business models for water
and sanitation services in the City of Tshwane. This is an urgent and difficult undertaking for the
majority of township regions. As a result, the City's next important priority is to construct water
supply and sanitation infrastructure.

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 The City of Tshwane has a vast of possible solution to its crisis namely:

• Water management that is sustainable

Tshwane currently produces about 100 megaliters of drinkable water each day and
obtains approximately 700 megaliters per day from Rand Water. As a result, the City
generates slightly more than 10% of its own supply of water every day. By using
current accessible resources, such as the Rietvlei Water Treatment Facility and a
total of five others, the city could potentially produce close to 50% of its own water.
Of course, this requires finance.

• Water overuse

Another major contributor to water shortage is the mismanagement of water

resources. Poor water management is a major problem. Because we are wasting
more water than ever before, there is a lot of stress on the limited water supplies.

• Educating and raising awareness

To address this, the city should provide instructional resources and advocate for
water harvesting for non-drinking household activities. harvesting of rainwater and
the reuse of wastewater also help to alleviate scarcity and demands on water and
other natural sources of water. Groundwater harvesting may also be an option.

All the above-mentioned possible solutions could be implemented through:

• Creating a program with specific goals for increasing water efficiency.

• It is more important to reduce demand than to increase supply.
• To achieve such demand reductions, active programs to reduce water leakage in
distribution networks and raise the efficiency of water usage by home and
commercial water users will be required.

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 • Water-saving demand-management projects should be included in the overall
portfolio of water infrastructure development programs.

Potential benefits

✓ Water resources
• Lower environmental effect
• Better water security
• Better exploitation of local resources

✓ Water purification
• Lower operating and maintenance costs
• Reduced demand for plant capacity

✓ Distribution of water
• Improved service delivery
• Employment opportunities
• Financially feasible municipality and water treatment facilities
• decreased loss of water
• Sociological and economic growth

The recommended interventions would be implemented over a number of years, with an emphasis on
initiatives that provide the greatest return on investments.

• Minimizing the Rand Water bills - this will encompass every measure that will
minimize visible water wastage and enhance efficiency in places that lack
adequate metering, billing, and other cost collection mechanisms.
• Generating more revenue - any measures that will promote revenue collection
must be included.

The City of Tshwane municipality is responsible for generating revenue from the drinking water that is
produced/purchased and provided to its residents. In an effort for the municipality to be able generate

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revenue for the planned interventions. As a direct consequence, the Municipality is obligated to set up
and maintain metering systems in order to reduce noticed or economic losses.

The following are examples of financial losses:

• Unauthorized water use and unlawful connections;

• Failures in customer meters;

• Incorrect meter readings;

• Non-metered connections;

• Connections are metered, however the metering devices are not visible; and

• The connection was metered but not read or charged.

Collaboration with independent or recognized institutions as a way of requesting financial aid could
benefit the city in terms of financial initiatives.

The business plan serves as the framework for implementing enhanced and proactive water and
sanitation management for the city's benefit and desired future.

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References

Impulse, S. (no date) Solutions to water scarcity, how to prevent water shortages? Available at:
https://solarimpulse.com/water-scarcity-solutions# (Accessed: 07 October 2023).

Midvaal (no date) Midvaal Municipality. Available at: https://www.midvaal.gov.za/ (Accessed: 07

October 2023).

Sadike, M. (2023) Water restored in parts of Tshwane after two-day outage, Independent Online.
Available at: https://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/news/water-restored-in-parts-of-tshwane-
after-two-day-outage-6b8bff32-c28b-481d-851a-f76fb85e1e30 (Accessed: 07 October 2023).

Wash business plan (no date) World Vision International. Available at: https://www.wvi.org/our-
work/cleanwater/wash-business-plan (Accessed: 12 October 2023).

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