Ramaphosa says government is addressing country’s water challenges [SOUND]

# President Cyril Ramaphosa says government is addressing the water challenges across the country, which is why he established the National Water Crisis Committee. He was speaking during the ANC’s door-to-door campaign in Soweto yesterday. The committee is working to ensure a coordinated approach to the institutional and financial reforms necessary to achieve water security. Ramaphosa says the immediate challenge is not mainly a shortage of rain or a lack of dams, but municipal water systems are not being properly managed, maintained and financed: