Wall, KevinRust, Chris2017-12-132017-12-132017-07Wall, K. and Rust, C. 2017. Reporting the condition of South Africa’s water sector infrastructure. 40th WEDC International Conference: Local action with international cooperation to improve and sustain water, sanitation and hygiene services, 24-28 July 2017, Loughborough, UKhttps://wedc-knowledge.lboro.ac.uk/resources/conference/40/Wall-2830.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10204/9859Paper presented at the 40th WEDC International Conference: Local action with international cooperation to improve and sustain water, sanitation and hygiene services, 24-28 July 2017, Loughborough, UKThe purpose of the “national infrastructure report cards” of the condition of engineering infrastructure in South Africa has been to draw the attention of government, and of the South African public at large to the importance of maintenance, and to factors underlying the state of repair of infrastructure. The success of these report cards, published in 2006 and 2011, has been such that a new report card is currently being prepared. Whereas completion of this, the third report card, will not take place until around mid-year, the objective of this paper is to briefly describe the background to and purpose of infrastructure report cards and the process by which the South African report cards are compiled, to discuss key findings of the previous report cards, and to describe the third report card’s preliminary findings for the water sector.enWater sector infrastructureInfrastructure report cardsConference PresentationWall, K., & Rust, C. (2017). Reporting the condition of South Africa’s water sector infrastructure. Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC). http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9859Wall, Kevin, and Chris Rust. "Reporting the condition of South Africa’s water sector infrastructure." (2017): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9859Wall K, Rust C, Reporting the condition of South Africa’s water sector infrastructure; Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC); 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9859 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Wall, Kevin AU - Rust, Chris AB - The purpose of the “national infrastructure report cards” of the condition of engineering infrastructure in South Africa has been to draw the attention of government, and of the South African public at large to the importance of maintenance, and to factors underlying the state of repair of infrastructure. The success of these report cards, published in 2006 and 2011, has been such that a new report card is currently being prepared. Whereas completion of this, the third report card, will not take place until around mid-year, the objective of this paper is to briefly describe the background to and purpose of infrastructure report cards and the process by which the South African report cards are compiled, to discuss key findings of the previous report cards, and to describe the third report card’s preliminary findings for the water sector. DA - 2017-07 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Water sector infrastructure KW - Infrastructure report cards LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2017 T1 - Reporting the condition of South Africa’s water sector infrastructure TI - Reporting the condition of South Africa’s water sector infrastructure UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9859 ER -