CHAPTER 3: PART 5 WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS (WMIs)

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CHAPTER 3 PART 5WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS
(WMIs)

• The institutional framework determines the
  effectiveness of implementation of water
  resources management strategies
• Objective is to decentralise responsibility and
  authority to appropriate institutions
• Institutions must have appropriate community,
  racial and gender representation
• Institutions to focus on requirement to consult
  on management of water resources

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The framework of WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS
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WATER MANAGEMENT AREAS
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CHAPTER 3 PART 6MONITORING AND INFORMATION

• Monitoring Systems
• Minister to establish national monitoring
  systems to collect information (including
  quantity, quality, use, rehabilitation,
  compliance, aquatic health, atmospheric
  conditions)
• Information Systems
• Minister to establish national information
  systems, including-
• Hydrology
• Water resource quality
• Groundwater
• Register of water use authorisations

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MONITORING SYSTEMS

• Surface water flow
• Expand to international standards, and to
  monitor water use and Reserve compliance.
• Surface water quality
• Expand to include all aspects of water quality
  (physico-chemical, microbial, eutrophication,
  biological, toxicity, radioactivity, estuarine).
• Groundwater
• Expand national, major aquifer and local
  networks.
• Requirement for users to provide information can
  be included in conditions of authorisations to
  use water

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INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• Surface Water Hydrology
• New system to take over from current one during
  2002
• Water Quality
• Water Management System (WMS) to be fully
  operational by 2007
• Groundwater
• Current system to be replaced by National
  Groundwater Archive by 2004
• Water Use Registration and Authorisation WARMS
  fully operational by 2004

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CHAPTER 3 PART 7PUBLIC SAFETY

• DWAF is responsible for public safety in water
  matters in respect of
• Floods
• Dam safety
• Pollution of water resources
• Aspects of droughts
• Proactive approach, within the framework of
  national disaster management policy and
  legislation, and in co-operation with other
  institutions and organisations in government and
  the private sector.
• Water management institutions required to make
  information available on potential or actual
  hazards.