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Troubled waters: Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke has warned that several factors, including poor governance and infrastructure decay, have compounded the problem of delivering clean drinking water. Photo: Ntswe Mokoena/GCIS
AGSA 2025 WATER REPORT

AG warns of deepening water crisis 

A special audit has exposed failing infrastructure, high losses and mismanaged municipal water services

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read