• Water Resource Management

• Water Services (including sanitation)

• Forestry

• Mandate
• Key Focus Areas
• Main Sector Institutions
• Priorities 2004/6

- DWAF must ensure that S.A.’s water resources are protected, used, developed, conserved, managed and controlled in a sustainable and equitable manner, for the benefit of all persons

- DWAF is "public trustee" of the Nation’s water resources, with power to regulate the use, flow and control of all water in the Republic.

• Mandates DWAF to issue permits for the establishment and or operation of waste disposal sites
• Amendment Bill will transfer this function to DEAT

BACKGROUND

South Africa’s water position:

• 150 of 180 countries have more water per person than South Africa (UN World Water Assessment)

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• Promote a common vision for integrated water resource management (IWRM), AND EMOPWER USERS TO APPLY BEST PRACTICES

• Ensure the protection of water resources

• Ensure reliable and equitable supply of water for sustainable socio-economic development, including poverty eradication

• Develop effective water management institutions

• Promote IWRM in Africa in support of NEPAD

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Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority (TCTA)

• established to implement SA side of Lesotho Highlands

• Implementing Berg River project (Cape Peninsula)
• Supporting other sector institutions and projects
• Governed by Board appointed by Minister

Water User Association (WUAS)/ irrigation Boards

• Established under National Water Act
• "cooperatives", mainly agricultural water users
• Existing "irrigation boards" being transformed into WUAs

- Operations and Maintanace of 26 DWAF schemes being transferred to

WUAs

Catchment Management Agencies

• Will cover all 19 "Water Management Areas"
• Establishment as capacity is developed
• First 5 to be established by 2005

Water Resource Management

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Finalise National Water Resource Strategy to-

• Protect water resources
• Authorise and enforce water use (including compulsory licensing in "stressed catchments")
• Promote access to water for production and poverty alleviation
• Promote water use efficiency
• Ensure reliable bulk supplies of water for industry, municipalities and other priority users
• Operate national water infrastructure (R2.5 billion "business")
• Develop key water projects (Lesotho, Berg, Oliefants etc)
• Promotion and transformation of sector institutions

Constitution

• Right to sufficient water and an environment not harmful to health
• Local governments are serveice providers
• National Government must support local government and monitor its perfomance

Water Services Act No. 108 of 1997

• "Developmental regulation" approach for water services
• Framework for service planning and provision
• Enables DWAF to ensure effective performance of municipalities

• Ensure sustainable basic water supply and sanitation services for improved quality of life and poverty alleviation
• Ensure effective and sustainable delivery of water serves to underpin economic and social development
• Ensure effective Water Services Institutions
• Ensure effective management of DWAF schemes (until handover to local government)
• Promote actins to achieve Millennium Development Goals in water and sanitation in Africa

Water Boards:

- Albany Coast, Amatola , Bloem Water, Botshelo, Bushbuckridge, Ikangala, Lepelle, Magalies, Mhlathuze, Namakwa, Overberg, Pelladrift, Rand Water Sedibeng & Umgeni

• Primary activity to provide water services to other water services institutions within its service area
• Board appointed by and accountable to the Minister
• Must ensure that the Board performs within the Act and according to agreed Policy Statement and Business Plan

Priorities

• Sanitation – running behind water supply
• Capacity building and support to institutions in Water Services
• Ensure delivery of equitable, efficient and sustainable water services
• Transfer capital programme to "MIG"
• Tranfer directly operated schemes to Local Govt. - With staff implications of about 7000

- Promote research in both water resource management and water service delivery

• Produces human resources for sector (750+ post graduates since 1994)
• Disseminates knowledge to ensure the application of research and promotes development work
• Funded by water users
• Appointed by Minister

To ensure that S.A.’s forests (indigenous and plantation) are protected, used, developed, conserved, managed and controlled in a sustainable and equitable manner

• Concurrent competence between National and Provincial Govts.

To prevent and combat veld, forest and mountain fires

• Provides for cooperative fire management institutions (FPAs)
• DWAF to prepare and maintain a fire danger rating system for the country with affected role players – DPLG, Prov Govts, FPA’S ETC.

• Ensure sustainable development and management of plantation forestry for equitable rural development
• Ensure sustainable management of indigenous forest to optimize their social, economic and environmental benefits
• Ensure that committees and disadvantaged groups are empowered to make use of tree and forest resources to support sustainable livelihoods
• Develop effective oversight and co-operative government to ensure Sustainable Forest Management in Africa

• SAFCOL

- DWAF plays monitoring and oversight role with DPE

- DWAF plantations transferred to SAFCOL before privatization

- SAFCOL limited future role

• FIRE PROTECTION ASSOCIATIONS

- Established under the National Veld and Forest Fire Act

• Impact of 2003 veldfires on commercial forestry

- Loss of plantation area: 30 176 hectares

- Loss in plantation production: 4,5 million tons

- Value of plantation loss: R695, 7 million

- Value of timber products loss: R3 Billion

- Additional costs (e.g. firefighting) R227 million

Direct management of indigenous forest

• Assign/ delegate indigenous forest management to provinces, municipalities or conservation orgs.
• Transfer DWAF commercial plantations

- to new management with staff implications of about 4000

• Regulate sustainable management of plantations
• Promote economic and rural development

- e.g. Eastern Cape afforestation.

• Support African forest management initiatives

- (NEPAD)

• Support of core business:

• maintaining the system-double function; merging available CS HR to meet the demands of the business; corporate performance management and safety.

• Transformational issues: language obligations
• Change management on all restructuring processes of the department.
• Conventional HR transactional services- efficiency and equality meeting business needs. e.g. Job Evaluation.
• HRD strategy – skills development.

• Learnership, internship and Bursary management

• Client empowerment: defining roles and responsibilities of client

• Risk assessment and to ensure compliance with rules and regulations
• Mangement of accounts receivables and accounts payable
• Achieve unqualified financial statements
• Ensuring that the Dept maintains an appropriate procurement system that is fair, equitable, transparent, competitive and cost effective
• Budget planning and expenditure control
• Asset management

Administration 252 762,000

Water Resources Management 1 365 755,000

Water services 1 333 772,000

Forestry 349 855,000

TOTAL 3 302 144,000

• (18 000 people down from 29 000 in 1997)
• Envisage restructured DWAF of 6000 people by 2010

• Operational functions still within government Department structure

• (unlike ESKOM, telkom, Transnet, National Roads Agencyetc.)

• still operates water services schemes in rural areas

• transferring to local governments

• Managing 60 000 ha commercial plantations

• to private operators

• Undergoing substantial change to focus on core national functions

• major mangement challenges