Water, security and housing headline $4b PSIP

Im­prov­ing wa­ter sup­plies, strength­en­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and ex­pand­ing ac­cess to hous­ing are among the pri­or­i­ties in the Gov­ern­ment’s $4 bil­lion cap­i­tal spend­ing pro­gramme for fis­cal 2027.

The plans in­clude fund­ing for pro­duc­tion wells and wa­ter treat­ment fa­cil­i­ties aimed at im­prov­ing sup­ply, $471.2 mil­lion for se­cu­ri­ty-re­lat­ed projects, and mil­lions of dol­lars for hous­ing re­pairs and land dis­tri­b­u­tion.

The Na­tion­al Wa­ter Sec­tor En­hance­ment Pro­gramme has been al­lo­cat­ed $45 mil­lion for pro­duc­tion wells, with the aim of work­ing to­wards a base­line sup­ply of 24 hours a day, three days a week, na­tion­wide. A fur­ther $30 mil­lion is al­lo­cat­ed for wa­ter treat­ment fa­cil­i­ties in sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties.