De Bos Reservoir in Hemel-en-Aarde Valley was put into operation to provide the growing Hermanus city with water. It was completed in 1976, the annual production limit of 2.8 million cubic meters of De Bos was established by the decision of the 1973 Water Court. This limit has repeatedly overturned. Photos: Sean Christie
- Overstrand Municipality has received more than 80% of the water since 2003, but also the highest prices for water management from the water department.
- The water and sewerage department effective monitoring systems, with the authorities, “No one continues to watch the excessive extractors.”
- Excessive production has played a role in the destruction of 12,000-year-old Onrrus Peatland, and Nelson Mandela Bay brought the “Zero Zero” to water shortages.
In South Africa, municipalities take more water than in consistent items, often bounce them quickly.
The excess of the local municipality of the Western Cape is in a position. Since 2003, De BOS in the Onrus River has exceeded the annual period of 2,800 megalitists from the Barb. This is the Wearus-ALIFANTANTANS MAKE MONTHS WATER USE REPORTS ON THE TAPTUMPENT Management Agency (BOPMA), Water and Sewerage Department (DWS).
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, 2021/22 Cape and IMPOU dams in the 2021/22 cubic system, three times and has a history of excessive production from Kouga systems.
The neighboring Kouga Municipality also has an overdevelopment history of Churchill Dam and an extreme extract continues. Later, the inner, Amathole District Municipality, currently the extreme extracts from several surface water sources, double the scheme in three million liters per day.
Kwazulu-Natalda, Umgengi-Uthukela water, Ethekwini, Msunduzi, Ugu, Ilembe and Umgungundlovu Municipalities to provide 470,000 megalitis per year. However, this allowance overturned this allowance, which lasted a few years, and about 30,000 megalitis of the enterprise in 2023, more than the investigation after the investigation.
The excessive demand of municipalities in Gauteng resulted in water every year since 2018, this was more than exceeding the amount of licensed for the abstract every year. In 2023/24, Rand Water exceeded the separation of 193,000 megals. To reduce it, Rand Water, Metropolitan Municipalities entered contracts with the IT supply (Johannesburg city, Tshwane city and Ekurhuleni), but these municipalities were not kept in the agreed limit, not caused the lack of water.
Umgeneni-Uthukela water is allowed to be the most of the 1,288 ml / D abstract, which is a 2-4% loss in the treatment process. The demand has risen sharply since 2018 and the bulk water supplier has exceeded its benefits since December 2020.
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It is illegal under the National Water Law, which is more than the amount of production allocated for a regulated water source. DWS, when using water or requiring this information regularly or requiring this information, said the spokesman Mavasa said that this information was not “consistently loaded in department systems.”
“Only the officials who can only know a single unit, because this is not a request for legal funds, because this is not a demand for reporting tools. DWS determined this as a problem,” he said.
The work of the Municipality of Overstrand is illustrative. Following the correspondence in the place of the place, after the demanding of water use reports in 2023 of the DWS, 99.99% DWS Blue Drop certificate.
Overberg Municipality has surpassed more than 80% of water from 2003.
Prior to 1994 and since 1994, a consultant who worked in DWS, Water Management Specialist Carin Bosman said that the department does not have a central depository for water use in CBS.
“No one follows those who extracted. This is simply in a country that is a large reporting cavity and just in a country like South Africa,” he says.
The Mavasa has been accepting the Constitution in 1996 in 1996, “Rebuilding Local authorities as a management field” has become more complex.
“Usually, if they are also not able to demonstrate the transgressionature of DWS inappropriation and actually demonstrate their appropriate, the DWS will help them to meet future requirements and to create a further reporting tool to monitor water use.”
Knowledge of mismatches does not always take action and legal measures against sinful parties are rare.
Here, both DWS and Bocma have been known about the tendency of extreme extract since the early 2000s, but only in 2023 after the moving of local environmental activists began to look closely in 2023.
In 2024, official complaints of production against the municipality, Bocma compliance monitoring and implementation began. The municipality saw no more extracted in recent decades. Bocma CEO Jan Van Staden, on February 27, 2024, Municipal Director Dean O’Neill came together to regularly report the water and bring water production to the court. According to Van Staden, the previous cases of inconsistency are effectively “water under the bridge” is effective.
Serious results
Potential results of excess production, in June 2024, the CEO of DWS Sean Phillips, the network of strategic water partners in connection with the Dam Dam is spread in connection with the source of a drinking water source for most of the city HighVeld.
“(Rand water) would be irresponsible to allow” Phillips. “If there was a drought, this can be said to be a zero situation one day in Gauteng.”
Former Nelson Mandela Municipality Mayor Odendaal, Dry 2021/22 annual brands, excessive production from paragraphs, brought the municipality to the edge of the disaster.
“The municipality was on the eve of 300% of the benefits from this system, the lack of commissioning of the churchil.
The environmental groups in Overstant have a connection between the environmental disaster, which continues to produce the loss of the De Bos Dam and 12,000-year-old Onrus Peatland and the loss of the popular Onrrus estuary.
The main recognition of Anton Kruger, “De Bos (warehouse) caused a dam to dry the Peatland. In 2018, it was fired for nine months. estuary, already changed permanently. “
Peatland and a bill that will partially clean the estuary, a partial billionaire Johann Rupert, a law project affected by the property environmental disaster.
Overstrand did not have been responsible for causing disaster, but according to O’Neill, the municipality “All Onrus grip has launched a project to restore and restore the onrrus peat wetlands.”
Environmental activists in Overberg in Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, Overstrand Municipality De Bos Dam was a direct link between the Leads of the De Bos Dam and in the Loan of Onrus Peatland and there is a joint contact there and
Excessive extract of municipalities
According to the Mavsa, “Many of the Abstraction, the main water supply, equipment shortages, vandalism and power breaks are justified by the main water supply resulting from the source.”
According to Overstrant, O’Neill, it is trying to continue the requirements of a double-growing population since the 2000s.
“Additional water has been launched (but) the extensive water plant program has been launched (but within 365 days, in 24 hours a day, as well as in 24 hours a day due to normal repair, it is practically impossible to produce fully within 365 days.
Umgeneni-Uthukela Water spokesman Siyabonga Maphumulo, most of the unexpected growth of Kwazulu-Natal customers said that the most unexpected part of the unexpected increase was a loss of water in the municipalities.
“Some have a lot of budget for repair and rehabilitation, which increased the increase in water loss and increasing this requirement between 40 and 50%.
Amathole District Municipality spokesman Sisa MSIwa, the growing water consumption of the municipality “can be related to the growth, developed service levels, and unfortunately, due to leakage, there may be a rise in water loss due to leakage.”
“An aging infrastructure in Stutterheim, especially asbestos pipes, especially sensitive to leaks,” he said.
Ethekwini Municipality, Destructive in KwaZulu-Natal, Destructive, caused the increase in water demand
Improving systems and accountability
According to the MavaSa, DWS, the combination of various regulatory systems will allow the connection to the information system. The department will also provide information to our national and regional departments (water).
According to Basthan, any deposit created must be accessible to the public.
“It may be the reasons for the end of the people, in the end.
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