1. NATIONAL WATER WEEK CELEBRATIONS 15 MARCH 2017 PRESENTATION TITLE
Presented by:
Mike Mokgwabone
Control Environmental Officer (Gr. B)
Vaal River Proto-CMA
(Directorate: Institutional Establishment – Gauteng Provincial Office)
15 March 2017
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2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. CMA Functional Analysis
Catchment management
strategy
Audit within WMA
RDM*
Business plan
Physical implementation
Water use regulation
WCDM projects
Registration
Authorize water use*
Dam safety*
Flood & drought management
WR rehabilitation
Billing & collection
Enforce compliance
Institutional support
Provide technical support
Coordinate activities
Participatory bodies
Intervene
Build capacity
Information management
Information generation
& dissemination
Data storage
and management
Data acquisition
Support for
knowledge products
Assessment
& evaluation

7. 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

8. CMA GORVERNANCE STRUCTURE
Status of recommendations:
Accepted by Minister
DWS retains water resources regulation functions of national strategic significance and devolves all other
water resources regulatory functions to CMAs
CMAs are regional water resource regulators
CMA 2
CMA 3
CMA 8
CMA 9 …
CMAs will be governed by expertise-based boards and operate in a way to enroll stakeholder participation.
The benefits of this model are greater accountability and responsiveness to users at a local level, and improved regulation to achieve equity outcomes in line with government’s policy goals.
The boards are appointed by the Minister, who exercises institutional oversight and ensures the government’s equity objectives are met in the water allocations process.

9. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN INSTITUTIONS (Institutional oversight)
Oversee institutional establishment;
Oversee governance (manage board appointment processes, training etc.);
Oversee shareholder compact;
Oversee business plans, quarterly performance reports and financial statements etc.
Parliament
Minister
DWA
Institutional oversight
Portfolio Committee reviews reports and plans (hearings, visits)
Minister appoints boards; approves shareholder compact
Public institutions report to the public and Parliament through Annual Reports and Annual Financial Statements and to the Department with quarterly performance reports
Elaborate on this, add government water schemes
TCTA
NWRI
CMA 1
CMA 2
CMA 9
Water board 1 WB 2 WB 9
WRC

10. THANK YOU