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Water & Sanitation
Conference 2009
Providing an integrated & sustainable solution to
Water and Sanitation challenges in Southern Africa
26th – 27th May 2009 • Cape Sun Hotel, Cape Town
“Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor;
canst not be defined, art relished while
ever mysterious.
Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou
fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the
delight of the senses.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, From Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
Featured Speakers include:
Mike Muller, Visiting Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Public and
Development Management Wits University (Former Director General, Dept of
Water Affairs and Forestry- DWAF)
Dr. Kevin Wall, Divisional Fellow & Principal Researcher, Council for
Scientific and Industrial Research
Obonetse Masedi, Water and Sanitation Expert, SADC Water Programme
Phera Ramoeli, Programme Director, SADC Water Programme
Marlene Van Der Merwa Botha, Specialist: Water and Wastewater,
WaterGroup (Former President Water Institute Of South Africa- WISA)
Leonardo Manus, Deputy-Director Water Services
Regulation, Dept of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF)
Godfrey Mwiinga, Specialist on Water and Sanitation, Development Bank
of Southern Africa
Nokuzola Lujiza, Senior Professional Officer, City of Cape Town Water
Pollution control
Dr. Anthony Turton, Director, TouchStone Resources (Pty) Ltd
Dr. Jo Barnes, Senior Lecturer: Dept of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences,
Division of Community Health, Stellenbosch University
Dr. Jaqui Goldin, Senior Research Fellow, Waternet Chair,
University of the Western Cape
Mariette Liefferink, CEO, Federation for a Sustainable Environment
Martyn Foot, Research learning policy development Adviser,
World Vision South Africa
Isobel Frye, Director, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute
Gareth Morgan, DA Spokesperson, Environmental Affairs
Prof. Roland Schulze, Professor Emeritus of Hydrology & Senior
Research Associate School of Bio resources Engineering & Environmental
Hydrology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Mandisa Kalako-Williams, Sec. General, The S.A. Red Cross Society
Emilie Galley, HydroGeologist, Umvoto

Conference Overview
This conference will afford you the special privilege of interacting with decision makers, stakeholders and ex-
perts in the field of Water and Sanitation; as it brings together professionals to discuss ongoing developments
and emerging solutions; providing integrated approach to sustainable water and sanitation development and
exchange of knowledge on aspect of service delivery in Southern Africa
• Presentation from world-class speakers
• Presentation from SADC water Programme
• Gain insights into emerging innovation and ideas for sustainable Water and Sanitation Development
• Opportunity for plenary discussion and input into the conference action plan from all session
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Conference Background

The Service delivery challenges of communities and water

professionals in emerging countries are unprecedented. It is a Who Should
Attend?
known fact that in meeting the millennium development goals
(MDGs), effective water resources management and sanitation
is central and of huge significance. Indeed the “Right to Water”
has been recognized at global level, and particularly in South Technical specialists from both research
Africa, however, significant social injustice remains. Today, emerg- and practice communities; from
ing countries are faced with a range of dynamic pressures includ-
engineering and science disciplines
ing rapid population growth and urban sprawl, industrialization
(social and economic)
and de-industrialization and climate change.

We produce massive streams of waste (solid, gaseous, liquid) National water and sanitation
contaminating soils, air and water and our ecological footprints is policy makers
increasing rapidly through continued exploitation of avail-
able resources; not to mention the deteriorating water quality. Water Boards/Corporations
Rural communities not only have to deal with poverty,
unemployment, lack of shelter. Poor hygiene and sanitation, water- Ministries of Water Resources
borne diseases and infections are fast becoming the way of life. A and Environment
number of policies and programs have been put in place, with the
aim of solving the many problems and challenges that faces us. In Water Providers For Communities,
many ways, water defines our wealth as individuals, nation, and Hotels and Institutions
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knowledge and innovative ideas are pooled from which Public Health Officials
emerging solution and appropriate decision are made for a
better future for all. This is essential if at all we are to meet the National, provincial, municipal and
millennium development goals (MDGs). Our aim is to ensure that Local Regulators
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08:00 - 08:30 Registration and Refreshments
08:30 - 08:40 Chairperson’s opening address
08:40 - 09:15 Keynote Address by Mike Muller
Visiting Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Public and Development
Management Wits University (Former Director General, Dept of Water Af-
fairs and Forestry- DWAF)
Water for a happy, healthy and productive future
- A vision for Southern Africa’s cities!
Water is a critical resource for all communities:
• It is vital for people, their survival and health.
• It is also an essential ingredient of almost all economic activity.
• Yet water is part of the natural environment that must be sustained.
The challenge of managing water is thus to find and maintain the right bal-
ance the social, economic and environmental demands on its use. This must
ensure production, without which we perish in poverty, adequate services
to keep us healthy and, importantly, support to maintain an environment in
which we are happy to live.
The presentation will discuss new approaches to achieving this balance,
including the latest developments from the 5th World Water Forum which
will be held in Istanbul in March. It will focus on the cities of the region since
cities are both important users of water but also major impactors. It will il-
lustrate this with examples from cities in the Southern African region, from
Angola to Zambia and Zimbabwe concentrating on the challenges that they
face in reaching the vision of happy, healthy, productive cities.
Themes will include:
• Technical challenges of meeting urban water needs, including
• Climate change and
• Water quality management
• Organisation of water management and water supply
and sanitation services
• Funding of those activities
• Ensuring that water users play their role.
09:15 - 09:55 The Global Water and Sanitation Challenges and Nokuzola Lujiza, Senior Professional Officer - City of Cape Town Water
a Snapshot of the Southern Africa situation
Dr. Jo Barnes, Senior Lecturer, Dept of interdisciplinary health Sciences,
Division of Community Health Stellenbosch University
The global challenges regarding water and sanitation are daunting. Some 1.1
billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water. Another 2.6 billion
lack basic sanitation, i.e. a toilet. By 2025, some 3.5 billion people will live in
places where water is scarce or becoming scarce, according to World Water
Council data. Safe water supplies, hygienic sanitation and good water man-
agement are fundamental to global health. According to the World Health
Organization, almost one tenth of the global disease burden could be pre-
vented by increasing access to safe drinking water; improving sanitation and
hygiene; and improving water management to reduce risks of water-borne
infectious diseases and accidental drowning. Annually, safer water could
prevent: 1.4 million child deaths from diarrhea, 500 000 deaths from malaria
and 860 000 child deaths from malnutrition.
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In South Africa access to water has increased dramatically, but backlogs con-
tinue to create unsafe living conditions and environmental pollution. About 5
million people were still in need of adequate supplies in 2008, while about15
blame poor water quality and environmental pollution on a lack of resources
and capacity that has put far too much strain on ageing infrastructure. There
tion, the health consequences of the sanitation failures and looming water
09:55 - 10:35 Water Service delivery - the weakest link!
Dr. Kevin Wall, Divisional Fellow & Principal Researcher,
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
10:35 - 10:45 Networking over Tea
10:45 - 11:25 Progress report on the realization of the
Millennium Development Goals through the
lens of Water and Sanitation
Isobel Frye, Director, Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute
South Africa committed to achieving the Millennium Development Goals
and in fact committed to doing so a year earlier than the rest of the world.
The 7th MDG commits the government to “halve, by 201(4)/15, the propor-
tion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic
sanitation”. Water is also a justifiable constitutional right in South Africa.
Despite these undertakings, obligations and commitments on and by the
state, many millions of people in South Africa are still vulnerable to disease
and death arising from unsafe water and poor sanitation. Lack of access to
water also adds time use strains to the time poverty of poor people, and espe-
cially poor women IN Southern Africa. SPII shall present the progress to date
by the state in halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to
safe drinking water and basic sanitation, and will explore the implications of
lack of access for poor people.
11:25 - 12:05 Impending Challenges of climate change on
Water Resources and People
Prof. Roland Schulze, Professor Emeritus of Hydrology & Senior Research
Associate School of Bio resources Engineering & Environmental Hydrology,
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Any Change in rain fall is amplified in water. The challenge of climate change
is that certain areas will be considered dry and others wet. We have to adapt
to this new condition in our planning in terms of Water quality, water
quantity and coping with extreme events such as flood and drought. This
presentation will present emerging solutions for developing appropriate
adaptation strategies
12:05 - 12:45 Intensification of Infrastructure Development
and Water Management programs
Pollution control
• Infrastructure strain and Pollution in rivers and watercourses
• Meeting the Face 2013 water Shortage challenge
12:45 - 13:25 Lunch
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13:25 - 14:05 Integrated Water Resource Management: What
does it mean in a dual economy country?
Prof Roland Schulze, Professor Emeritus of Hydrology & Senior Research
Associate School of Bio resources Engineering & Environmental Hydrology
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Dual economy exists in South Africa (and other emerging country) with a
first world and third world living side by side. This introduces huge challenges
in Water management, nationally, regionally and locally. These issues will be
addressed in this presentation.
14:05 – 14:45 SADC Shared Watercourse Systems Protocol
- Towards joint strategic management
& development
Phera Ramoeli, Programme Director, SADC Water Programme
14:45 – 15:25 Case Study
Ground Water Management – Protecting Research conducted at the CSIR has indicated that by 2025 and additional
Groundwater as a Sustainable Resource:
West Rand
Mariette Liefferink, CEO, Federation for a Sustainable Environment
Waste from gold mines constitutes the largest single source of waste and
pollution in South Africa. Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) is responsible for the
most costly environmental and socio-economic impacts. Production of AMD
may continue for many years after mines are closed and tailings dams decom-
missioned. AMD is not only associated with surface and groundwater pol-
lution, degradation of soil quality, for harming aquatic sediments and fauna,
and for allowing heavy metals to seep into the environment.
Long-term exposure to AMD polluted drinking water may lead to increased
rates of cancer, decreased cognitive function and appearance of skin lesions.
Heavy metals in drinking water could compromise the neural development
of the fetus which can result in mental retardation. If indeed the extent of
“… problems related to mining waste may be rated as second only to global
warming and stratospheric ozone depletion in terms of ecological risk” (EEB,
2000), then the Witwatersrand gold mining area of SA is at serious risk.
15:25 – 15:35 Networking over Tea
15:35 – 16:15 The status of wastewater treatment in SA:
Raising performance through a risk-based,
regulatory driven approach
Marlene Van Der Merwa Botha, WaterGroup Specialist: Water and Waste-
water & Leonardo Manus, Deputy-Director Water Services Regulation, Dept
of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF)
16:15 Chairman’s Closing Remarks
End of Conference Day One!
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08:00 - 08:30 Registration and Refreshments
08:30 - 08:40 Chairperson’s opening address
08:40 - 09:15 Water as a limiting Factor to future
economic Development!
Dr. Anthony Turton, Director, TouchStone Resources (Pty) Ltd
South Africa is a water constrained country. The National Water Resource
Strategy of 2004, which is the official government planning document, has in-
dicated that around 98% of the national water resource had been allocated at
a high assurance of supply level by that date. This means that future economic
growth will be curtailed unless we introduce drastic new thinking into our
developmental planning. There is around 38 billion cubic meters a year that
makes up the national water stock available at a high assurance of supply, and
South Africa is currently on that threshold.
28 billion cubic meters will be required if moderate economic growth is to
be assured. This opens the debate to water as a stock versus water as a flux.
The presentation will focus on this debate by explaining how the
management of water as a flux will easily generate those “missing” 28 billion
cubic meters, provided that all stakeholders understand and adopt this new
management paradigm”.
9:15 - 9:55 Finance for Sustainable
Water and Sanitation Development
Godfrey Mwiinga, Specialist on Water and Sanitation with Development
Bank of Southern Africa
It is widely acknowledged that the financing of water projects is not easy.
Preparation of water sector projects to bankability level is understood to take
long. Still when they are finally financed, revenues for both financial and
profit sustainability are comparatively low. Water cuts across all spheres of
society, therefore many stakeholders and bringing them to one table for a
single social-economic goal has often become a daunting task. Often, because
of complicated nature of water sector projects and their high social
Water has in recent years been receiving its due attention as an economic
good that could be provided commercially. Hence, many developing
countries are now acknowledging the relevance of providing water
commercially in order to ensure quality and sustainable services to its
consumers. This development is seen to be slowly easing the challenges of
cost-recovery in many water projects. It is becoming clear that additional
funding is not the panacea to sustainability of water services. With the benefit
of hindsight of recent knowledge and practices in water sector financing, his
presentation will focus on financing issues for sustainable water and
sanitation development.
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13:25 - 14:05 Leveraging Capacity from Private Sector

participation in Sustainable Water and
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D Martyn Foot, Research learning policy development Adviser, World Vision
South Africa.

09:55 - 10:35 Improving accountability & leadership for water World Vision will provide insight and exchange knowledge on work with
Supply, sanitation, and hygiene Government and communities in providing sustainable water and Sanitation.
Gareth Morgan, MP, DA Spokesperson on Environmental Affairs
14:45 - 15:25 Case Study
• Defining clear roles and responsibilities at all levels Water and Sanitation: Towards Innovation
• Policy development and Implementation for Water and Sanitation and Change
• Ensuring Coordination mechanisms for greater policy coherence and Emilie Galley, HydroGeologist, Umvoto (earth-water-science-life)
donor harmonization
• Technical options
10:35 - 10:45 Networking over Tea • Capacity and peer learning - water operators’ partnerships
• New research and technology development agenda
10:45 - 11:25 Water: A filter for human freedom • Applying local knowledge to water and sanitation provision
and development
Dr. Jacqui Goldin, Senior Research Fellow, Waternet Chair, University of the 15:25 - 15:35 Networking over Tea
Western Cape
15:35 - 16:15 Summary Discussion:
Improved delivery is about enhancing choices and the human freedom to live Water and Sanitation-Towards Strategic
well. It is about providing opportunities for citizens to take control over their planning and Action Plan...
environment and to participate in decisions to improve the quality of their (Providing a way forward)
lives and to maintain ecosystem equilibrium for future generations. Water
and sanitation delivery can be a powerful conduit for social development and
16:15 Chairman’s Closing Remarks
well-being. The paper examines achievements in this domain with reference
to Amartya Sen’s notions of development and human freedom

11:25 - 12:05 Meeting the Sanitation Challenges in Southern End of Conference Day Two!
Africa: Towards a Holistic Approach
Obonetse Masedi, Water and Sanitation Expert- SADC Water Programme

• Emerging issues in water and infectious disease in Southern Africa…

• Dynamic and emerging solutions…

12:05 - 12:45 Case Study

Towards a Community driven approach to
improving sanitation and hygiene
Mandisa Kalako-Williams, Sec. Gen South African Red Cross Society

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• Calling for community participation….
• Skills for behavioral change to sanitation and hygiene

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