District’s R760 mln water and waste plan
“WE aim to identify environmental management challenges and find possible solutions,” said Sibusiso Khuzwayo, municipal manager of the Umgungundlovu District Municipality (UMDM), who chaired last Friday’s meeting of the Umgungundlovu District Environmental Forum at the council chamber in Langalibalele Street.
IT IS NOT EASY BEING GREEN
“THIS is not a talk shop. There has been enough of talk shops. It is time for action. All levels of government and civil society are represented here. The people present are here to work. So let us get down to work.”
BIG GRANT FOR UMDM
R300 mln grant for UMGUNGUNDLOVU District Municipality (UMDM) has secured a R300 million grant from the Netherlands-based Facility for Infrastructure Development (Orio) to help provide better water service in its six municipalities.
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INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING NEEDS
The uMgungundlovu District Municipality (“UMDM”) or (“the District”) has identified the need to undertake an integrated water infrastructure development programme (“the Water Infrastructure Project”) or (“the Project”) in order to meet its Millennium Development Goal (“MDG”) target of reducing the proportion of its population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2014.
Day of Goodwill
Day of Goodwill: Zuma visits Impendle
PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma found time in his busy schedule to spend the Day of
Goodwill with the community of KwaNxamala in Impendle.
The community turned out in their numbers — and estimated three thousand —
as Zuma highlighted the importance of the day. He urged those present to
use it as an instrument for community upliftment, self-reliance and nation
building.
As a gesture of goodwill, 40 families who were recent victims of a heavy
rainstorm that left them homeless were given food hampers provided by the
South African Social Security Agency and the UMDM’s disaster unit.
MEETING THE WATER DEMAND
MEETING THE WATER DEMAND
AMONG the challenges facing water provision in KwaZulu-Natal are the lack
of rain, mismanagement of water resources and unaffordable water tariffs.
These were the issues listed by Provincial Premier Dr Zweli Mkhize while
opening the 2010 water and sanitation summit at the ICC in Durban.
Mkhize said climate change is also a factor that reduces the availability
of fresh watery.
He said plans for water provision in KZN include the development of the
Spring Grove Dam in Mooi River, which would increase water provision to
the uMgungundlovu district. (GET PIC OF DAM SHOOTING OUT WATER OR USE PIC
OF MICHAEL DRINKING WATER MUST BE MOST PROMINENT AS WE ARE HEADING FOR
ELECTIONS)
