WATER MANAGEMENT AND RELATED SERVICES: DRAFT REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

WATER MANAGEMENT AND RELATED SERVICES: DRAFT REGULATIONS OUT FOR COMMENT

• 12 January 2024
• Water & Sanitation
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Water & Sanitation has called for input by 12 March 2024 on draft regulations intended to:

• improve water and sanitation services
• improve the quality of water discharged into the water resource and water services delivery system
• promote efficient, sustainable water use, and
• address shortcomings in prevailing water works and consumer installation construction and functioning planning and procedures.

Once finalised and in force, the proposed new regulations will repeal and replace the June 2001 regulations prescribing compulsory national water conservation standards and measures. It is envisaged that, among other things, they would prohibit the provision and/or use of the bucket toilet system ‘in both formal and informal settlements’.

Among other things, the draft regulations propose minimum standards and related operational procedures for:

• basic, interim and emergency water services
• drinking water quality
• basic, interim and emergency sanitation services
• sanitation at public places
• greywater, sewerage, industrial and other wastewater and faecal sludge management, and
• the control of ‘objectionable substances’.

In addition, the draft regulations propose measures intended to:

• strengthen human resource capacity, focusing on:
  • operational management (including issues arising from electricity supply disruption)
  • infrastructure construction and maintenance (focusing on reducing water loss)
  • operational and maintenance budgeting and costing, and
  • service auditing and planning.

Please click the links below for more information:

• draft regulations
• 2001 regulations

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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