The State defines the minimum level of acceptable access to water as access to water within 200m from the yard of a household. There has been steady progress in improving access to water with a 13 percentage point reduction in households with no access to water between 2001 and 2011. The results of the 2011 Census show that rural municipalities have the largest backlogs with 41 percent of households having no access to water whilst only 5 per cent of households in Metros had no access to water.