Some ten years ago, 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 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 Millennium Development Goals (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.
Skip Nav Destination
Article navigation
Research Article|
August 01 2006
Reinforcing water and sanitation sector reform in South Africa
Ola Busari;
Ola Busari
*
1Development Bank of Southern Africa, PO Box 1234, Midrand 1685, South Africa
*Corresponding author: Fax: +27-11-313-3416. E-mail: [email protected]
Search for other works by this author on:
Barry Jackson
Barry Jackson
1Development Bank of Southern Africa, PO Box 1234, Midrand 1685, South Africa
Search for other works by this author on:
Water Policy (2006) 8 (4): 303–312.
Article history
Received:
May 17 2005
Accepted:
May 31 2005
Citation
Ola Busari, Barry Jackson; Reinforcing water and sanitation sector reform in South Africa. Water Policy 1 August 2006; 8 (4): 303–312. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2006.038
Download citation file:
Sign in
Don't already have an account? Register
Client Account
You could not be signed in. Please check your email address / username and password and try again.
Could not validate captcha. Please try again.
eBook
Pay-Per-View Access
$38.00