REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA COMBINED SECOND PERIODIC REPORT UNDER THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE`S RIGHTS and INITIAL REPORT UNDER THE PROTOCOL TO THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN AFRICA 298. With regards to the main sources of drinking water used by households. An estimated 45,3% of households had access to piped water in their dwellings in 2013. A further 26,8% accessed water on site while 15,2% relied on communal taps and 2,6% relied on neighbours’ taps. Although 4,2% of households still had to fetch water from rivers, streams, stagnant water pools and dams, wells and springs in 2013, generally households’ access to water in improving. This is a decrease of more than five percentage points from 9,5% of households that had to access water from these sources in 2002. 299. Table 8 below confirms that the number and percentage of households with access to piped water had increased since 2002. 86