GROUNDWATER PROTECTION & MANAGEMENT: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT REGULATIONS

GROUNDWATER PROTECTION & MANAGEMENT: INPUT SOUGHT ON DRAFT REGULATIONS

• 10 December 2025
• Water & Sanitation
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Water & Sanitation has gazetted draft regulations on groundwater resource protection and sustainable management – calling for public comments by 1 March 2026.

Developed under the 1998 National Water Act, the proposed new regulations focus on:

• identifying and controlling certain activities related to the drilling and management of boreholes and aquifers
• setting the necessary general and specific requirements, practices and standards
• improving groundwater resource data and information management by providing for:
• groundwater user geosite registration
• driller and pump installer registration, and
• the creation of a system for capturing:
  • borehole drilling and geosite information, as well as
  • geohydrological information and reports, and
• streamlining the South African National Standards for groundwater management, drilling and pump testing.

Please click the link below for more information:

• draft regulations

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