The IAM Strategy to Keep Our Water Services Clean and Fresh and Reliable

This paper describes the steady progress that the South African Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) has been making with formulating a national water services infrastructure asset management (IAM) strategy. A "scan" of the state of water services infrastructure and the state of its asset management, is long complete. This was followed by a process of identifying elements needed for an enabling environment to ensure sound asset management. Since then DWAF, with the assistance of an external team, has been identifying priority strategic actions, taking cognizance of its mandated responsibility and what it needs to do within its own sphere and also in conjunction with others, particularly with other national government departments. DWAF's efforts complement and are complemented by other national IAM initiatives.