The South African Human Rights Commission has raised concerns over the continued use of water tankers, linking their provision to corruption.

Commissioner Dr Henk Boshoff is briefing the media as the commission releases its findings on the state of water and sanitation services in Gauteng.

The inquiry was conducted earlier this year following persistent complaints about water supply interruptions, failing infrastructure and pollution.

The commission found that many municipalities are struggling to provide communities with reliable access to water.

Boshoff says the continued reliance on water tankers is concerning.

"It is simply not acceptable where metropolitan municipalities are spending hundreds of millions of rands a year on water tankering. Those hundreds of millions of rands could have been used to upgrade your infrastructure. But you have decided that it's more lucrative for the service provider and for municipal employees to rather perpetuate the procurement of water tankering for self-interest."  Article written by Tsholofelo Tsoku, EWN