Blue and Green Drop Systems training for Mpumalanga municipalities
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) in partnership with the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) in the Mpumalanga Province engaged municipalities in the province in a two day training programme on the Blue and Green Drop Systems on 29 and 30 August 2016 in Mbombela. The training was aimed at ensuring effective and efficient water and sanitation service delivery to communities.
The Blue and Green Drop certification programmes are innovative means to regulate e core objective of safeguarding the tap water quality management and sustainably improve the level of wastewater management. The programmes are also meant to ensure that tap water is of acceptable standards and to also protect the environment.
The main purpose of the training was to capacitate municipal officials on the Blue and Green Drop Systems. The training is basically an intervention meant to deal with the poor performance of municipalities as per the outcomes of the 2014 Blue Drop/Green Drop performance assessments.
The other important purpose of this training intervention is to ensure that the relevant municipal officials have the necessary information, training and knowledge on how the system operates so as to enable them to be able to upload the necessary and required data. It has been noticed that some municipalities do not upload the data correctly resulting in them scoring poorly during assessments.
The high turnover of officials in most municipalities also necessitated the training to ensure that the new officials are familiar with the systems.
The training programme aims to empower the municipal officials on how the systems work, the information required on the Blue and Green Drop systems and how to upload the same information. With the information and knowledge gathered during the training, municipalities will be able to provide the required information ensuring that the assessments are a true reflection of the plants and municipalities’ performances.
The first day focused mainly on the Blue Drop system and requirements and the focus of the second day was mainly on the Green Drop and document management.
For more information contact:
Sputnik Ratau
Cell: 082 874 2492
For further enquiries:
Themba Khoza
Cell: 082 600 5666
