South Africa’s water sector investment requirements to 2050

A partnership between the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), National Treasury’s (NT) SA TIED research projects, the National Planning Commission (NPC), and the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) was formed to assess what level of investment is required between now and 2030 to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to access to adequate water and sanitation as well as the water sector objectives of the National Development Plan 2030 (NDP), and ensure these service levels are met up to 2050. This work will also feed into the broader SA-TIED workstream related to Water-Energy-Food (WEF) in the context of Climate Change (WEF CC) with a particular focus on the WEF nexus. The study does not yet deal with WEF nexus issues but forms part of the groundwork for future work to come on this topic.