The Department Water and Sanitation is taking stock as it determines the required solutions for a sector fraught with major inequalities and unequal distribution, and an “inability to uphold the right of every South African to access water”. “South Africa’s water story is not a good one,” Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said on Tuesday during a post-Budget Vote media briefing, outlining a bleak, untransformed environment that required urgent remedial action.