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WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: SECOND BILL HEADS TO PARLIAMENT
- 10 October 2025
- Water & Sanitation
- SA Legal Academy
The Department of Water & Sanitation has gazetted the pre-tabling explanatory summary of a National Water Amendment Bill approved by Cabinet during its meetings on 22 July and 6 August 2025.
Not yet available, once passed by Parliament, enacted and operationalised the proposed new piece of legislation is expected to:
- ‘ensure that the country’s water resources are well managed, protected and conserved’ and
- ‘eliminate the imbalances of the past relating to water allocation’.
This is according to a media statement on the Cabinet meetings at which the Bill was approved.
The explanatory memorandum itself refers to provisions intended to ‘enhance and strengthen’ the principal statute’s implementing regulations.
A Water Services Amendment Bill approved during the same Cabinet meetings has already been tabled in Parliament, as SA Legal Academy recently reported.
- explanatory summary
- Cabinet media statement
- SA Legal Academy report on the Water Services Amendment Bill
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