The sensitive nature of South Africa’s water resources, it is necessary that water care works for both potable and wastewater treatment be managed to ensure that stipulated water quality standards are adhered to.
Category: Policies, legislation, and regulations
National Water Act
To provide for fundamental reform of the law relating to water resources; to repeal certain laws; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
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.
Public Finance Management Act
To regulate financial management in the national government, to ensure that all revenue, expenditure, assets and liabilities of that government are managed efficiently and effectively; to provide for the responsibilities of persons entrusted with financial management in that government; and to provide for matters connected therewith…
Tariffs
Water service tariffs are associated with the supply of potable water and with the managing and sanitizing the used (waste) water.
The State of Water Metering in South Africa
High levels of Non-Revenue Water (NRW) are a major challenge for municipalities and utilities worldwide
Meter Management
Water metering is an excellent application of the principle to measure, is to know, and knowledge of what is happening with the water in a distribution system is the key to properly managing this resource.
Evaluation Toolkit
Gauteng has limited natural water resources and therefore relies on a very large and highly engineered system called the Integrated Vaal River System (IVRS) which draws water from five different river basins across six provinces.
Water Demand Management
This guide concentrates on highlighting the key issues in simple and straightforward terms in an attempt to explain what interventions can be undertaken in order to reduce water losses from municipal water supply networks and how best to implement them.