DWS continues to engage its stakeholders on the National Pricing Strategy on Raw Water Use
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) continues with consultation of its stakeholders and the members of the public on the revised draft National Pricing Strategy for Raw Water Use Charges.
Following several public consultations in various provinces from September, the Department turned to Gauteng stakeholders who congregated at Riverside Sun in Vanderbijlpark in the Vaal on Monday, 17 October 2022.
The aim of the public consultations is to solicit inputs on the draft National Pricing Strategy for Raw Water Use in South Africa before the closing date of 03 November 2022. Upon receiving all the inputs from the public and water and sanitation stakeholders, the Department will carefully consider them before the finalisation of the strategy.
The Pricing Strategy provides the pricing framework for the use of raw (untreated) water from the water resources and/or supplied from government waterworks and the discharge of water into a water resource or onto land.
The Pricing Strategy seeks to facilitate reform in the sector as well as to provide transparency and predictability to water users on how water will be priced.
It is intended to support the achievement of the goal, as articulated in the National Water Resource Strategy, that water is efficiently and effectively managed for equitable, sustainable growth and development.
In terms of section 56, of the National Water Act, Act 36 of 1998 (NWA), the Minister of Water and Sanitation may, together with the Minister of Finance, every now and then through notices in the Government Gazette, establish a pricing strategy for any water use within the framework of existing relevant government policy.
The revised pricing strategy caters for five water resource charges, namely: Water Resource Management Charges, Water Resources Infrastructure Charges, Waste Mitigation Charge, Water Research Levy and Economic Regulation Charges.
All written comments can be submitted to pricing-strategy@dws.gov.za / NyabanyabaL@dws.gov.za
Below are the upcoming Water Pricing Strategy Consultations:
Western Cape
Clanwillian: 19 October 2022
Piketberg: 20 October 2022
Paarl: 21 October 2022
Worcester and Caledon: 24 October 2022
Riversdale and Calitzdorp: 25 October 2022
George and Oudtshoorn: 26 October 2022
Uniondale: 27 October 2022
Plettenberg Bay: 28 October 2022
Eastern Cape
Queenstown: 24 October 2022
Somerset East: 25 October 2022
Fort Beaufort: 26 October 2022
Gqeberha: 27 October 2022
East Londo: 31 October 2022
Mthatha: 01 November 2022
Kokstad: 02 November 2022
KwaZulu-Natal
Drummond: 31 October 2022
Richards Bay: 01 November 2022
Newcastle: 02 November 2022
Mooi River: 03 November 2022
For more information, contact
Sputnik Ratau
Cell: 082 874 2942
