Chairperson, as COPE we taken great interest in the report on the study tour, by all accounts Netherlands has world governed water and sanitation sector but is hard not to draw a negative and damning contrast with the deteriorating water and sanitation situation we face here at home. Currently our national focus is on the collapse of Eskom and the damning consequences thereof.
As COPE we are equally concern that we are facing similar crisis we the impending collapse of our water and our sanitation sector. The sign of this crisis already clearly is manifesting themselves despite repeated warnings over the past 20 years. As far back as 2002, the