Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane “has chosen to abandon Nelson Mandela Bay’s people‚ and to ignore the bucket toilet crisis”‚ the Democtatic Alliance (DA) said. The party’s mayoral candidate in the metro‚ Athol Trollip‚ said his letter to the minister about the issue‚ apart from an acknowledgement of receipt‚ has received “no response”Trollip claimed the “people in this metro still use the highest number of bucket toilets in any metro in South Africa”.“As my colleague‚ Leon Basson MP‚ said from Parliament last week: Mokonyane is dodging and avoiding releasing this year’s Blue and Green Drop reports‚ because they indicate the very sad state of water and sanitation delivery where the African National Congress (ANC) governs‚” said Trollip.The Blue Drop Programme measures water treatment plants and the quality of drinking water‚ white and the Green Drop Programme assesses the quality of wastewater treatment works.Basson on Friday said Mokonyane had missed numerous deadlines to release the reports – “without an explanation” and gave her seven days to table them before or “the DA will request the reports through the Promotion of Access to Information Act”. “In the style of the ANC as a whole‚ of mayor Danny Jordaan and ANC mayors before him‚ Mokoyane has ignored pleas and calls for solving NMB’s bucket toilet crisis. I reached out to the minister after personally seeing bucket toilets in staggering numbers around our metro day after day‚” Trollip said on Monday...