The two day National Water and Sanitation Indaba held in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, ended on Friday with government committing to work closely with municipalities across the country to speed up water infrastructure development. The indaba was convened at a time when South Africa is battling a water crisis due to ageing infrastructure, vandalism and corruption. In order to turn around the water sector, the delegates called for the establishment of a new state owned enterprise - The National Water Resource Infrastructure Agency, increase investment to ensure the financial viability of the water sector, and to come up with an infrastructure security strategy and plan to combat corruption, vandalism and theft of water and sanitation infrastructure within 6 months. To help dissect some of these issues Bongiwe Zwane spoke to Dr Sean Phillips - Director General, with the Department of  Water and Sanitation and Prof. Richard Meissner, a water security expert from UNISA