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OVERVIEW OF THE RESERVE PROCESS AND THE NEED FOR PROTECTION 24 JULY 2014

RESERVE DETERMINATION STUDIES FOR SELECTED SURFACE WATER, GROUNDWATER, ESTUARIES AND WETLANDS IN THE GOURITZ WMA – PSC MEETING NO 1. OVERVIEW OF THE RESERVE PROCESS AND THE NEED FOR PROTECTION 24 JULY 2014. OUTLINE. Why do we need to protect? Strategy for Protection

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OVERVIEW OF THE RESERVE PROCESS AND THE NEED FOR PROTECTION 24 JULY 2014

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  1. RESERVE DETERMINATION STUDIES FOR SELECTED SURFACE WATER, GROUNDWATER, ESTUARIES AND WETLANDS IN THE GOURITZ WMA – PSC MEETING NO 1 OVERVIEW OF THE RESERVE PROCESS AND THE NEED FOR PROTECTION 24 JULY 2014

  2. OUTLINE • Why do we need to protect? • Strategy for Protection • What is the Reserve and where does it fit in? • 8-Steps Process of the Reserve

  3. Need for water resource protection • NWA mandate ( NWRS, chapter 3, and other environmental legislation) • Water resource are (Rivers, Estuaries, Wetland and groundwater) • Water resource protection is not about conserving the fish and birds only but the: • Objectives for water resource protection are to : • ensure long-term sustainable use of water resources • balance the need for long-term protection against the need for economic growth and social development

  4. OVER UTILISATION OF A WATER RESOURCE EWR OVERABSTRACTION POLLUTION GEOMORPHOLOGY MODIFIED

  5. Resource Directed MeasuresA strategy to ensure sustainability and protection

  6. Strategy for protection RESOURCE PROTECTION • Managing and controlling activities impacting on water resources (abstraction of water & the disposal of effluents ) • Setting management requirements in water resources (rivers, wetlands, estuaries & groundwater) • Pollution sources • Discharges • Run-off (Agricultural, settlements, urban areas) • Illegal water use – Water abstraction • Licenses • Best Practices for water use • Setting the rules for managing and controlling activities impacting on water resources through: • Management Objectives (Class & Resource Quality Objectives) • Human Needs & Aquatic Health (Reserve)

  7. RDM – Strategy for protection Habitat 2 Biota Quantity Quality SupplyBHN Protect aquatic ecosystems

  8. 8-step process 5. Operational Scenarios & Consequences Impacts of development scenarios Ecological and socio-economic consequences 1. INITIATE STUDY Define study area Select level and eco- system components Select study team 2. DEFINE RESOURCE UNITS & SELECT EWR SITES 6. DWA MANAGEMENT CLASS Decision-making process 3. FIELD SURVEYS & ASSESSMENTS Undertake specialist field surveys Assess the present state and recommend future state 7. SELECT BEST DEVELOPMENT OPTION & DEVELOP A MONITORING PROGRAMME 4. QUANTIFICATION Quantify the EWRs and scenarios, including quality 8. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

  9. Thank you

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