The Chief Executive of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) says the authority has experienced mixed fortunes in its pursuit of the Performance Agreement it entered into with government three years ago.

Commenting on the WASA annual general report for the 2005/2006 financial year, Mrs. Refiloe Tlali mentions that the Authority has performed well in the areas of financial prudence, level of service, reducing the number of people who are more than 150 metres away from the main supply and unaccounted for water.

Mrs Tlali says up to the second quarter in the implementation of the Performance Agreement, the number of people more than 150 metres away from the main water supply, and also that of people who receive water for less than 18 hours a day, were reduced by 15 percent.

She adds that targets that could not be met include the Energy Saving target and the Emergency procedures, something she attributes to WASA's lack of adequate expertise to develop strategies to achieve.

The Performance Agreement between the government of Lesotho and WASA was signed in 2004 and was effective from April 2005. The agreement entails the achievement of 20 targets in the quest to improve service delivery. The government also has obligations in a number of areas, which would hence create an enabling and conducive environment for WASA to improve service
delivery.

The Water and Sewerage Authority on the other hand, had to meet a number of targets that would be used as a gauge in its task of improving service delivery.

The WASA Chief Executive pledged that areas that were not addressed adequately will be given more attention this year.

Source: LENA