South Africa's Water Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Roadmap: 2015-2025

1. South Africa's Water Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Roadmap: 2015-2025 Rivers M1, Jindal N1, Nienaber S2, Roman HJ2 and Burgess JE3 3 December 2015 1Mutualfruit Ltd 2DST 3WRC

2. What is the Water RDI Roadmap? • 10 year plan for and set of investment priorities for Water RDI in SA • Structured framework that focuses the contribution of RDI to national policy, strategy, planning needs • A high level planning tool that facilitates and guides refocusing of research, reprioritization of funds, synergising of existing initiatives and ring-fencing of new resources in order to facilitate a more optimal water innovation system • VISION: South Africa is a “leader among middle income countries in the development and deployment of water management practices and technologies. It competes with leading countries in providing sustainable solutions” Presentation www.dst.gov.za

3. Why did we start this process? • A clear plan about what the Water RDI needs and opportunities and are to catalyse new partnerships, investments, and opportunities • A signalling tool to the Water RDI Community • A signalling tool to Water RDI Investors …to ensure that the latter’s (WRC) research needs are known, and between the WRC and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the National Research Foundation (NRF), to ensure that approaches to water research are consistent with South Africa’s broad policy on science and innovation. • A “sense check” in terms of existing investments and approaches • A plan to bring new partnerships and investments into the sector • An opportunity to think through the streamlining of the RDI system • Guide strategic planning (All institutions/individuals involved with RDI) • Signal investment priorities • Signal the need for info sharing

4. Supportive of national strategies Presentation www.dst.gov.za

5. Approach and Participation • Sectors: Agriculture, Industry, Public, Environmental Protection • An exploration of what customers want provided the basis for a focused approach to developing South Africa’s Research, Development and Deployment (RDD) Response • Need identification • Intervention (not solution) identification • Clustering Process • Performance Measures (RDI success factors, potential and opportunity) • Impact and Investment • Research Capability Mapping • 62 Organisations, 32 Workshops Presentation www.dst.gov.za

6. What’s in the Roadmap? How Means Opportunities Problem Opportunities: Better coordination and improved decision making supported by the translation of research into practise More products and services to reach the market through a better coordinated water innovation pipeline National savings through targeted RDI investments (e.g. By reducing water losses to 15%, through innovation interventions, an approximate R3.5 bil would become available for investment in other needs/areas) Human Capital Development (HCD) (Skills) • Problem Statement: • 98% of all water resources already allocated • Non-revenue water is 36% on average ~R7 billion / yr • By 2030 demand will outstrip supply by 17% Use of sources Increase ability to make use of more sources of water, including alternatives. Improve governance, planning and management of supply and delivery. Govern, plan & manage Supply infrastructure Improve adequacy of performance of supply infrastructure. Research and Development (R&D) (Evidence) Operational performance Run water as a financially sustainable business by improving operational performance. Govern, plan & manage Improve governance, planning and management of demand and use. Innovation (technological and non-technological) (Technology) Reduce losses and increase efficiency of productive use. Efficiency Improve performance of pricing, monitoring, metering, billing and collection. Monitoring and collection Supply Demand

7. 10 year programme: Reduce losses and increase efficiency of productive use Research Initiatives Source: Mutualfruit Framework, WRC Analysis Note: Developed via a series of structured sessions with the WRC to articulate research initiatives in terms of their evolution, duration and research capacity implications

8. Returns: Systemic investment focused on socio-economic impact Outputs Impacts Presentation www.dst.gov.za

9. Returns: Value Proposition • a)       The RDI opportunity in water does not lie solely in Technology. The root contribution comes through allowing better coordination, improved decision-making, and greater enablement, principally through the systematic translation of research into operational practice. • b)      Only 4% the total 10 year investment ask is directed explicitly towards technology development; 75-80% for HCD & R CapacityProducts and services delivered to market is but the end point of a total pipeline of technology development that includes attempts and failures. • c)       The principal purpose of technology is to solve national needs • If the purpose of investment in technology were export, this would have driven a different strategy. Our target market would be different and our market strategy would have assessed needs and SA’s ability to satisfy them better/faster /cheaper than the competition. We do expect a positive effect on the technology balance of payments. • d)      We assessed the Impacts and summarised them qualitatively. • Due to the lack of underlying data and associated models - as identified in discussions with a leading resource economist - this roadmap could not yet provide a more specific quantified estimation of the overall value, as was the case for the ICT and Waste Roadmaps. We are now working on developing tools which should enable that to be at least partially done in the near future. • E.g. R7bn p/a lost in non-revenue water = R70bn over 10 years. Spending R3.4bn over 10 years on Infrastructure, Productive Use and Ops Performance halves water loss and saves R35bn. Presentation www.dst.gov.za

10. What next? • Roadmap Portfolio Management Unit (PMU) in place at the WRC • WADER is already implemented • Coordination of existing investments and activities in the Water RDI “ecosystem” • Leveraging new investments into this space. Presentation www.dst.gov.za

11. What does RDI and it’s role players bring to the city? • A short, medium and long term partner • Short: tech appropriateness scans, piloting new and incoming innovations, horizon scanning, advisory functions • Medium: tech demonstrations, catalysing relationships and processes for future (tenders, infrastructure cultures, etc) • Long term: ensuring the pipeline of new ideas flows, planning for what we don’t know about • The RDI Roadmap as a partner and instrument to channel investments • The Balancing act: • R&D timelines are often different to political cycles. • The RDI pipeline needs to be co-created for the future of the water sector Presentation www.dst.gov.za

12. Development Team • DST • Dr Henry Roman Email: henry.roman@dst.gov.za • Ms Shanna Nienaber • Email: shanna.nienaber@dst.gov.za • WRC • Dr Jo Burgess Research Manager KSA 3: Water Use and Wastewater Management Email: job@wrc.org.za Presentation www.dst.gov.za

13. Participation and input from 62 organisations in 32 workshops Agri SA Agricultural Research Council (ARC) Amatola Water Anglo American Coal ARC-Institute for Soil, Climate and Water BHP Billiton Energy Coal South Africa Ltd Biomimicry SA Chamber of Mines City of Cape Town City of Johannesburg City of Tshwane Coaltech Coca Cola South Africa Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Department of Environmental Affairs Department of Science and Technology Department of Water and Sanitation East Rand Water Care Company EON Consulting Eskom-Mining Eskom-Research & Development Eskom-Technology, Strategy, and Research Management Eskom-Water Resources Ethekwini Municipality Exxaro Federation for a Sustainable Environment Golder Associates Pty Ltd Grain SA Johannesburg Water Land Rehabilitation Society of South Africa Limpopo Provincial Department of Agriculture Midvaal Water Company Mintails Ltd National Business Initiative National Planning Commission Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality NEPAD Business Foundation Nestle Rand Water SA Association for Water User Associations SA Irrigation Institute SAB Miller Sappi Sasol South African Local Government Association South African National Biodiversity Institute South African Weather Services (SAWS) Stellenbosch University Strategic Water Partners Network (SWPN) Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA) Tshwane University of Technology Umgeni Water Umhlaba Consulting Group University of Pretoria University of the Witwatersrand Water Technologies Demonstration Programme (WADER) Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA) Water Research Commission (WRC) Western Cape Department of Agriculture Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa Worldwide Fund for Nature SA

14. Process, driven by Customer-defined Needs and Interventions, Performance Measures, and Anticipated Impact Step 1: Explore what customers want. What do they want, and why do they want it? Step 2: Shape the RDD response. How can customers’ needs be met? What do we need to do?

15. Seven road maps for the price of one Presentation www.dst.gov.za

16. Every cluster is a mini Roadmap on its own • Objective • Outcome • Research Initiatives • RDD Responses (RDD activity, Readiness, Infrastructure, customers and partners) • RDD Impact (scarcity, economic, health, society, environment) • Research Plan/Programme • HCD Plan and capability map (how much capability is needed to respond to the task?) • Investment ask Presentation www.dst.gov.za

17. Returns and Investment • This section presents the anticipated returns in the form of Impacts and Outputs that result from the implementation of the seven Programmes of Action. • The Investment Ambition enables these Programmes. • There is one Programme for each of the seven Clusters. Presentation www.dst.gov.za

18. Returns: Anticipated RDD Outputs, by Objective and Indicator Assumptions in respect of investment in Human Capital Development and Knowledge Generation are derived from prior domain experience in South Africa. Anticipated conversion rates in technology development are consistent with international benchmarks in the translation of science to end-use technology. The investment per patent application refers to the level of investment in R&D activity that typically results in one patent application, and not to the cost of patent application fees and management. Presentation www.dst.gov.za

19. Investment Requirement to fund 10 year programme R8.34 Presentation www.dst.gov.za