DWS needs workable plan to resolve debt to water boards – portfolio committee

The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation has raised concern over the lack of tangible plans to resolve increasing debt owed to water boards by municipalities. To resolve this, it has mandated the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), National Treasury and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to develop a workable plan to be presented to the committee at the beginning of the next term.