Ms Katherine Walshe:

Over the past number of events, we had up to 60 generators which we were able to deploy. The good point about having a crisis management team in place is that one can work right across country through the regions to deploy the generators where they are necessary and move them on. In that way, we were able to manage the events.

We have 40 critical sites in which we are looking at putting permanent generators. For the remainder of the sites, we are working on plug-in facilities for mobile generators. This week we will be putting out a tender for a central store from which we could deploy some of these generators around the country as needed. We are also working on a comprehensive strategy to find the most appropriate solution for each water and wastewater site.