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South Africa's water and sanitation sector reform: progress and challenges
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posted on 2018-02-12, 15:07 authored by Ola Busari, Barry M. JacksonSome ten years back, South Africa’s newly elected government inherited huge services backlogs with respect to access to
water supply and sanitation. About 15 million people were without safe water supply and over 20 million without adequate
sanitation services. Since then, the country has made a remarkable progress with regard to accelerating the pace of services
provision and restructuring and refocusing the entire water sector. Having ensured access to an additional population of
over 10 million people, South Africa is well on track to wipe out the infrastructure backlog for basic water supply by 2008,
exceeding the MDG target. But, first, with respect to sanitation for which the national target is universal access to a functioning
facility by 2010, the picture is somewhat different. Second, substantial challenges remain in addressing historical
inequalities in access to both water supply and sanitation, and in sustaining service provision over the long term.
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BUSARI, O. and JACKSON, B.M., 2005. South Africa's water and sanitation sector reform: progress and challenges. IN: Kayaga, S. (ed). Maximising the benefits from water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 31st WEDC International Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 31 October-4 November 2005, pp. 109-114.Publisher
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