Every drop of water counts. Yet municipalities lose billions of rand in treated water each year. The Water Research Commission developed eight training modules to help you build practical skills to manage water losses more effectively. The training is online, practical, and easy to complete at your own pace. Completing it successfully will earn you CPD points.
Author: Leonie Vorster
Performance-Based Contracting for Non-Revenue Water and its Relevance in the South African Context
Performance-Based Contracting (PBC) offers strong potential to address the rampant NRW in South African municipalities. However, there are reasons why Performance-Based Contracts (PBCs) have not been adopted at scale, which largely relate to municipal technical capacity and the complex and difficult context in which municipalities operate.
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Aqualibre Software
Towards co-operative governance in the development and implementation of cross-sectoral policy: Water policy as an example
Water policy is cross-sectoral, directly and indirectly affecting and affected by almost all other sectoral policies such as agriculture, urban development, rural development, health, housing, economic development. Effective implementation of any cross-sectoral policy requires that co-operative governance processes have to be established on the ground, and not just considered as some form of laudable principle.
Reducing water losses in Municipalities: Key issues and pointers to implementation
Saving water and water demand management (WDM) in general can be quite confusing to a municipality wishing to embark on some form of water loss reduction activities. A lot of work has taken place in South African and internationally to support water loss reduction in order to save money.
Determining How Much is Just Enough
South Africa is a water-scarce country, which means it water resources are limited. The country does not have that frequent rainfalls to ensure adequate crop growth.
Research Impact Assessment of the Water Administration System
The aim of this project is to provide the WRC and its stakeholders with a concise assessment of the impact (to date and future potential impact) of the WRC’s Water Administration System on economic, environmental and social aspects of South African and international society.
Policy and Regulations
The purpose of the report is to understand how water footprints may contribute to sustainable management of water in South Africa primarily in the industrial sector, and to explore linkages between water and energy and the concept of water offsetting.
South African Water Policy and Legislative Framework
This report summarizes that everyone has the right to have access to sufficient food and water and social security, including appropriate social assistance.
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