Drought funds eagerly awaited
By Tremaine van Aardt - 20 March 2018
Provincial department keen to formulate plan and tackle water crisis
Eastern Cape Water and Sanitation Department head Portia Makhanya is waiting anxiously for the allocation of drought relief funding to conceptualise a plan to tackle the water crisis in the new financial year. However, she remains confident of the province’s water supply, stating that “day zero isn’t in our [department’s] vocabulary”.
