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WaterBloem
Providing water for life saves lives
BLOEM
WATER
Bloem Water has a challenge on its
hands, but when it’s achieved the
company will have saved or improved
the lives of thousands. Its job is to provide
access to safe, clean and quality water to the
Southern and central areas of the Free State,
South Africa and it has a newly adopted
strategic plan in place to achieve this.
Established as a Water Board in 1991, Bloem
Water echoes the resounding message that
the work of the government, in partnership
with all stakeholders, is not complete until
the last person in the most remote village has
access to drinkable water.
The simple truth is that all living organisms
require water to survive, in fact up to 60% of any
human being on the planet is made up of water.
In the human body, water accounts for 75%
of the human brain and around 80% of all the
blood which flows through the veins. It is so vital to our basic ability to survive that losing as little
as 2% of your body weight in water can lead to
confusion and reduced mental function and at
4% loss, poses serious health risks.
It’s possibly therefore easy to understand just
how important it is for every living person to have
access to clean, safe water for them to drink.
What’s possibly harder to grasp then, is the
fact that there are still millions of people without
this luxury. South Africa is one of the very few
countries in the world that enshrines the basic
right to sufficient water within its constitution going so far as to state that “Everyone has
the right to have access to sufficient food and water”.
The challenge facing Bloem Water therefore
is a rewarding one, given the important nature
of its end goal – to support this very basic need
of humanity. As one of South Africa’s water
boards, based in Bloemfontein, it is responsible
for supplying water to a population in excess of
1.2 million people within its areas of service.
The task undertaken by Bloem Water, is by no
means a simple one. Sourcing and supplying
water to the population within Free State
offers many obstacles. Free State, a sparsely
populated area of South Africa receives almost
all of its rainfall during the summer months,
making distributing and planning water supply
vs demand especially challenging, but they
are challenges which have been successfully
traversed over the past two decades.
Recently Bloem has invested heavily by
upgrading and refurbishing ageing infrastructure
along with the further exploration of ground water
sources. Such endeavours further highlight the
Water Board’s focus on not only short term, but
long term solutions to an increased demand.
This growing demand from expanding local
communities is in itself a testament to the work
which the board has already undertaken as such
population growth can only flourish with sufficient access to clean, readily available water.
Despite already benefiting the local population through its expansion efforts, Bloem
also participates in several development
initiatives designed to uplift the livelihood of local
communities. Its focus has remained to help those
communities stricken by poverty in general and
have resulted in the company running hygiene
related projects within schools, upgrading toilets
and distributing water tankers and rollers.
Bloem is also committed to the implantation
of the bucket eradication program in areas of
service and within the province as a whole.
Through its continued development and
expansion, 36,000 buckets were recently
eradicated in the province further drastically
improving the lives of many residents.
Bloem also continues to invest in the local
communities through employment and has
identified the need for more skilled plumbers and artisans to work within the industry. As the
workforce ages and the company expands,
there is a natural requirement to train new
personnel to ensure the company remains at the
cutting edge of innovation within the industry. It
is also involved with the governments ‘War on
Leaks’ initiative to train and develop plumbers
and artisans to help identify and fix leaking taps and pipes which cost up to R7- Billion a year.
Bloem has also laid down a long-term
development plan for its infrastructure
setting itself goals for significant operational improvements to increase its water provision
capacity. Such investments in the infrastructure
are not without cost however, but Bloem remains
in good financial health despite increased operational costs thanks to its strong long-term
strategic plan and the continued leadership
under the group board.
Dr L Moorosi, was recently appointed as
the Chief Executive of Bloem Water and the
person to lead Bloem Water, ensuring the
viability and success of the company for the
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VISION
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future. Her previous experience has been in
similar industries having worked as a Head
of Department within both the Department of
Rural Development and also the Department
of Agriculture within Free State. She has also
previously worked as the Chief Operating Officer for the Free State Department of Agriculture and
as Provincial Director of Veterinary Services at
the Free State Department of Agriculture.
Dr Moorosi is Doctor in Veterinary Medicine
with a Masters in Agriculture from the University
of the Free State. She is a past lecturer at the
faculty of Agriculture, Department of Animal
Science at the University of the Free State.
