The City of Cape Town has increased the ratio of 1 toilet for 9.6 households to 1 for 4.3 households‚ it said in a statement on Sunday.The proportion of full-flush toilets has also increased from 15% to 30% of total toilet provision‚ it added.“Since 2016‚ great strides have been made to implement sanitation systems to residents in informal settlements.“At the time of the 2006 Municipal Elections little progress had been made in this regard and only 15‚000 toilets had been provided to informal settlements in the city‚” the statement read.“Of these‚ approximately 3‚000 were bucket toilets and only 2‚500 of the total toilets provided were connected to the sewage system.“At the time‚ the ratio of toilets to households was one toilet for more than nine households (1:9.6). It must be noted that back then‚ the population in our informal settlement areas were lower than what it is today.” By March 2016 over 50‚000 toilets have been provided‚ of which 15‚000 were full-flush. However‚ the city noted that there was still much that needed to be done.“The City knows that many residents still live in unforgiving conditions.“The population growth has led to less space for the installation of full-flush services by the Water and Sanitation Department and further upgrades will necessarily be more resource intensive than before. "For improvements to informal settlements to continue at anything close to the same pace as what has been achieved over the past decade‚ cooperation between the City and residents must be enhanced‚” the statement added...