{"id":246047,"date":"2026-09-30T21:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namwater-faces-questions-over-ageing-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:00:29","slug":"namibia-namwater-faces-questions-over-ageing-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-namwater-faces-questions-over-ageing-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Namwater Faces Questions Over Ageing Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>NamWater&#8217;s ageing infrastructure backlog and the funding needed to replace critical water facilities are set to come under the spotlight in the National Assembly next week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This comes after Popular Democratic Movement chief whip Diederik Vries on Tuesday posed questions to agriculture, fisheries, water, and land reform minister Inge Zaamwani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The minister is expected to answer next week Thursday as to how much investment is required to address ageing pipelines, reservoirs, pump stations, and other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609300658.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NamWater&#8217;s ageing infrastructure backlog and the funding needed to replace critical water facilities are set to come under the spotlight in the National Assembly next week. This comes after Popular Democratic Movement chief whip Diederik Vries on Tuesday posed questions to agriculture, fisheries, water, and land reform minister Inge Zaamwani. The minister is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,12399,5080,9864,4706,724,24083,257,5152,254],"class_list":["post-246047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ageing","tag-faces","tag-infrastructure","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namwater","tag-news","tag-questions","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}