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UMGENI WATER

www.umgeni.co.za

ENABLED AND INNOVATIVE GROWTH 54 municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal, 43 of which are
local municipalities, ten are district municipalities and
Umgeni Water is a state-owned business enterprise one is a metro.
that was established in 1974 to supply drinking
water in bulk to the municipalities of Durban and Fourteen of these municipalities are Water Services
Pietermaritzburg and to consumers in the corridor of Authorities, as determined by the Water Services
these cities. The organisation has grown over the years Act. Of these Water Services Authorities, seven are
to become the largest bulk potable water provision customers of Umgeni Water. They are eThekwini
entity in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal and the Metro, Msunduzi Local Municipality, iLembe District
second-largest water utility in South Africa. Municipality, Ugu District Municipality, Harry Gwala
District Municipality, uMgungundlovu District
In 2019, Umgeni Water, the group, had a total of Municipality and uThukela District Municipality.
1 231 personnel at its various sites. Most of them
are involved in all of the functional areas of Umgeni Umgeni Water’s involvement in uThukela District now
Water: finance, asset management, planning of means the organisation will cover 44% of the Province
projects, project management, water quality, water of KwaZulu-Natal, from its original 32%, and the
resource management and environmental science and water it treats and supplies will ultimately reach 73%
management. of the Province’s population of 11.1 million people, or
29 million households.
Expansion
The service area of Umgeni Water was extended Core Functions
in December 2015 to cover the entire Province of The key activities of Umgeni Water, as defined in the
KwaZulu-Natal, amounting to 94 359km . There are Water Services Act (Section 29), are to provide water
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