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Comment on: National Water Resource Strategy
30 October 2012
Patrick Dowling
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Work of Water Officials
• Integrity• Transparency• Energy• Commitment• Expertise
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10 core strategies
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Development state
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Water policy in a developmental state
• important that good intentions carry through into technical strategies
• Involve people in decision making processes• Share benefits and responsibilities wrt water
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NDP
• Widespread unemployment• Ailing infrastructure• Low standards of education• Exclusion of the poor from mainstream development• A resource dependent economy• A failing public health system with a large disease burden• Inept public service provision• Widespread corruption• Societal divisions
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Equitable growth and development
• Combating mining legacies• Finite amount of water• Public credibility• Cleaner technologies• Rain water harvesting
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Green economy• Investments in both public and private sectors,
provide the mechanism for the reconfiguration of businesses, infrastructure and institutions, and for the adoption of sustainable consumption and production processes.
• Greater efficiency in the use of energy, water, and materials is a core objective i.e. achieving the same economic output (and level of well-being) with far less material input.
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• The kilowatt-hour (symbolized kWh) is a unit of energy equivalent to one kilowatt (1 kW) of power expended for one hour (1 h) of time.
• A heater rated at 1000 watts (1 kilowatt), operating for one hour uses one kilowatt hour
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Justice and equitability
• DWA alignment with other depts• Job creation and livlihoods• Infrastructure maintenance
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Protecting water ecosystems
• Climate Change• AMD• Fracking precaution• WWTW priority• Dry sanitation technologies research• Water and ecosystem services
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Climate Change
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• The need for Climate Change action and overall resource management and protection is geared to accelerate the pace of green job creation and overall green investments in the years ahead.
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Water as a planetary boundary
Global human water consumption = 2600 cubic Kms p.a
Available global fresh water = 4000 cubic Kms p.a
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Smarter governance
• Informed public participation in CMAs• DWA veto on other department water claims• Water responsibility education • Equitable share correctly spent
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CMAs
• number reduction regrettable • further from ordinary people• ensure that the catchment forums have teeth• accessible spaces for civil society
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Sustainable Businesses
• Pricing• Equitable share for other species• Emphasis on maintenance and high priority
infrastructure
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Water rights of other species
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Water sector investment
• Publically accessible budgets• Non-revenue water• Realistic allocations to sorting problems like
AMD
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Water resource stretching
• Precautionary approach new water• Increasing respect for current water use • Grey water reuse• Compliance from bottom to top
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Water use efficiency
• CS participation• Penalty tariffs high end• Support for urban and rural subsistence
farming• Training• Leak fixing
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Private Sector
• Must be transparent• Information for public easily accessible• Close observance of the UN CEO mandate
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Strategic Water Partnership
• Coke• Pepsi• Nestle• WWF
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The UN CEO Water Mandate elements
1. Direct Operations2. Supply Chain and Watershed Management3. Collective Action4. Public Policy5. Community Engagement6. Transparency