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Ensuring effective and sustainable local water resource management in South Africa

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Key Activities

  • Coordination and collective bargaining

  • Advocacy and influence

  • Communicate and inform

  • Advisory, and support

  • Policy and legislative

  • Collaboration and relationship building

  • Research and development

  • Dispute resolution

  • Calculated litigation

  • Expanding membership base and creating and a vibrant member network

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Key Focus Areas

  • Institutional support, transformation, restructuring and development

  • Training and capacity development

  • Building and improving relationships with government and relevant stakeholders

  • Water use efficiency

  • Billing and addressing debt of Institutions

  • The state of infrastructure, its operation and maintenance

  • Verification and Validation

  • Transformation and Water Allocation Reform

  • Unlawful Water Use

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Key Stakeholders/ Partners

  • Department of Water and Sanitation

  • Other relevant government departments

  • Organised Agriculture

  • Water Research Commission

  • South African Irrigation Institute

  • Strategic Water Partners Network

  • South African Council for Irrigation and Drainage

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ABOUT US

SAAFWUA serves as a transdisciplinary liaison promoting compliance, monitoring and enforcement, capacity building, collective bargaining, dispute resolution and collaboration in order to support LWMI’s with effective and sustainable local water management in South Africa.

OUR MEMBERS

75 IRRIGATION BOARDS

43 
WATER USER ASSOCIATIONS

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FORUMS

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