Manage water resources in an integrated manner to ensure a healthy, stable water resource base to meet the current and future needs of South Africa, thus ensuring accessible, potable and healthy water for all;
Residential areas will have piped water. In dry areas boreholes will be sunk and engines and windmills installed;
As a short-term job-creation exercise, the locals will be employed to dig the trenches. Some locals will be employed to operate and maintain the engines;
Put in place programmes to establish new female driven water boards to ensure effective operation of existing schemes, and to promote regional water supply; and Ensure that dams are built at strategic places to provide water for the long term period
Sustainable water management might be thought of as the state when four domains of sustainability are effectively implemented. We are going to implement the four domains which are:
1. Social sustainability: Where all humans have equitable access to adequate and affordable water services to meet their health and livelihood requirements, and where citizens and communities play a meaningful role in water governance and decision-making.
2. Environmental sustainability: Where water use and management does not compromise biodiversity, the functioning of habitats, or ecological or hydrological processes that are essential to society.
3. Economic sustainability: Where water management is affordable and cost effective and economic costs and financial risks are understood, minimized, and balanced in a transparent, socially acceptable way.
4. Institutional sustainability: Where institutions tasked with water management have sufficient resources and social legitimacy to function over the long term.
UCDP will guide in the implementation practices in pursuit of these broad, aspirational goals which are likely to take a variety of forms and approaches. This Guide’s principles and operational measures will help steer municipalities to engage in water policy in support of sustainable water management.