Providing water services to the rural poor

Thuso Ramaema, chairman of Amanz’abantu, non-executive director of Metsico and executive director of Water & Sanitation Services South Africa (WSSA), with Oliver Ive, managing director of Amanz’abantu and CEO of Metsico, review the South African BoTT programme.

In July 1997, South Africa’s Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) launched a national contract with four consortia, to provide water and sanitation services to the rural poor in the four most needy provinces of South Africa.

The contract is currently referred to as the BoTT programme. While these provincially defined programmes are government funded, they have been ...

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