CHAPTER 3: PARTS 8 & 9CHAPTER 3: PARTS 8 & 9ANTICIPATED PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIESANTICIPATED PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES

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FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONSFINANCIAL IMPLICATIONSOperational ActivitiesOperational Activities

Activity Description Time Frame Indicative Cost(R million)

Routine operationalactivities

Ongoing activities such asdata collection, waterquality management, damsafety control

Ongoing R 1 800 per year

Commissioningactivities

New activities required bythe NWA, such ascompulsory licensing,establishment of CMAs,transformation of Ibs toWUAs, and transfer ofoperational responsibilitiesto WUAs.

Up to 20years

R 100 per yearaverage

DEVELOPMENT OF WATER-SHARING DEVELOPMENT OF WATER-SHARING AGREEMENTS WITH NEIGHBOURING AGREEMENTS WITH NEIGHBOURING

COUNTRIESCOUNTRIES

Shared watercourse/system Neighbouringcountries

Orange-Senqu System Lesotho & Namibia

Limpopo River Botswana, Zimbabwe& Mozambique

Incomati System Mozambique &Swaziland

Usutu/Pongola-Maputo System Mozambique &Swaziland

BY 2010 for all: - Joint basin studies finalised - Formal agreements concluded to establish international WMIs to manage basins

DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTUREINFRASTRUCTURE

Description Time Frame Indicative Cost(R million)

New schemes to augment supply for:-- Irrigation- Domestic, urban, industrial and miningRefurbish existing schemes

Expand monitoring systems

25 years

10-15 years

20-25 years

1 80010 200530 per yearaverage1 300

SOURCES OF FUNDINGSOURCES OF FUNDINGAt present:• Allocations from the Government Exchequer account• Revenues from water use charges – the Water Trading

Account• Off-budget funding (e.g. Lesotho Highland Water

Project, Komati Basin Scheme)• Donor funding (minimal)In future:• Objective is to implement the Act’s requirements

without substantial increases in Exchequer funding• Revenues from water use charges will fund water

management institutions• Off-budget funding for infrastructure wherever possible,

but some infrastructure will continue to require Government funding