Drakenstein
Drakenstein Local Municipality is renowned for its successful long-term strategy to cut water losses by two-thirds and its consecutive clean audits.
The Municipality has zero tolerance for corruption. To keep making progress into the next term, Drakenstein Local Municipality will focus on creating the conditions conducive to facilitating opportunities for appropriate development for, and with, the community.
Drakenstein Success Stories
Three clean audits
DA-led Drakenstein reduced water losses from 34.8% to 12.1% in just over a decade by using interventions like hydraulic modelling.
Groenheuwel and Wellington libraries were finalists in the Culture Affairs Awards.
Mayor Conrad Poole welcomed debate on incineration, resolving that the Waste Recovery Benefaction and Energy Project is still an environmentally sound solution.