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NATIONAL WATER WEEK CELEBRATIONS 15 MARCH 2017 Presented by: Mike Mokgwabone Control Environmental Officer (Gr. B) Vaal River Proto-CMA (Directorate: Institutional Establishment – Gauteng Provincial Office) 15 March 2017. PRESENTATION TITLE Presented by: Name Surname Directorate Date.
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NATIONAL WATER WEEK CELEBRATIONS 15 MARCH 2017 Presented by: Mike Mokgwabone Control Environmental Officer (Gr. B) Vaal River Proto-CMA (Directorate: Institutional Establishment – Gauteng Provincial Office) 15 March 2017 PRESENTATION TITLE Presented by: Name Surname Directorate Date
BACKGROUND • Chapter 7 of the National Water Act (Act No. 36 of 1998) requires the Minister to establish Catchment Management Agencies (CMAs) to perform water resources management (WRM) functions at a catchment level, largely through the delegation of water resource management to the catchment level to involve local communities in the decision-making processes. • Catchment Management Agencies are Statutory bodies and are listed as schedule 3a entity under the PFMA-service delivery Public entity • The intention is for water resource management to: • meet the basic human needs of present and future generations; • promote equitable access to water; • redress the results of past racial and gender discrimination and; • facilitate social and economic development
BACKGROUND • Chapter 7 of the National Water Act (Act No. 36 of 1998) requires the Minister to establish Catchment Management Agencies (CMAs) to perform water resources management (WRM) functions at a catchment level, largely through the delegation of water resource management to the catchment level to involve local communities in the decision-making processes. • Catchment Management Agencies are Statutory bodies and are listed as schedule 3a entity under the PFMA-service delivery Public entity • The intention is for water resource management to: • meet the basic human needs of present and future generations; • promote equitable access to water; • redress the results of past racial and gender discrimination and; • facilitate social and economic development
THE ROLE OF CMAs Manage water resources in a defined Water Management Area (WMA). A (WMA) is an area established as a management unit in the national water resource strategy within which a catchment management agency will conduct the protection, use development conservation, management and control of water resources Co-ordinate the functions of other institutions involved in water related matters Involve local communities in water resource management
Water Management Areas Vaal now covers Upper, Middle & Lower Vaal (Gauteng, Free State & Northern Cape) Limpopo Olifants Inkomati- Usuthu Vaal Orange Pongola-Mzimkulu Berg-Olifants Mzimvubu-Tsitsikamma Breede-Gouritz
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS TO CMA • Phase 1: Developing relationships and legitimacy • developing administrative systems, • developing a catchment management strategy, • building relationships and building its profile amongst stakeholders • Phase 2: Build capacity and consolidate • after the CMS has been developed • increase in capacity within the CMA and the undertaking of WRM • Phase 3: Fully functional and responsible authority