Announcing the results of the 2012 Blue Drop Certification Programme, Molewa said that the latest report showed "significant improvements", which highlighted the positive impact that the incentive-based regulation approach had on the South African water sector.
The overall national Blue Drop assessment score increased from 72.9% in 2011 to 87.6% in 2012, with Gauteng and the Western Cape achieving again the highest score. While Mpumalanga had once again the lowest score of 60.9%, it improved on its 2011 score of 56.5%. Engineering News reports that the top performing overall municipality in the 2012 Blue Drop results was Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality with a score of 98.95%, while the poorest performing municipality was Kou-kamma local municipality, in the Eastern Cape, with a Blue Drop score of 5.60%.
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