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UPCOMING EVENTS |
World Wetlands Day
2 February 2012
National Water Week
5-11 March 2012
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SHORTCUTS
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Floods Mpumalanga
19 January
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The Department of Water Affairs is closely monitoring the situation in the
Mpumalanga Province where heavy rains have caused wide spread flooding. A team
from the Department has been deployed to the affected areas and is working with
the local authorities and disaster management units to bring the situation under
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Algoa Water Supply
30 November
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Sustainable water supply for Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and surrounding
areas.
The Department of Water Affairs has welcomed the measures introduced by the
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality to drastically reduce water usage following the
drought in the Eastern Cape that severely affected the Algoa Water Supply System
last year (2010). The measures include the changing of the Nelson Mandela Bay
Municipal by-laws to promote the use of rainwater harvesting tanks which seeks
to reduce users’ total reliance on the municipal water supply. |
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Freshwater Ecosystem
14 November
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Water is fundamental to the economic growth and development of this country and
to the well-being of all our citizens. There is no doubt that this scarce
resource in South Africa should be well managed, protected, used, conserved and
developed in a sustainable manner. |
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