This site provides access to online information relating to Resource Management Plans (RMPs) administered by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWAF).
It is DWAF’s policy that water resources and government waterworks are managed, controlled, conserved, protected, developed and utilised for recreational purposes in a sustainable and equitable manner, where appropriate based on integrated water RMPs developed in association with stakeholders. Without such plans it is difficult for informed decisions to be made, necessitating a precautionary approach to access, utilisation and development proposals.
Four main key performance areas are addressed in these plans, namely:
- resource management;
- utilisation management;
- benefit flow management; and,
- institutionalisation.
Zoning Plans were the forerunners to RMPs. These plans were, however, traditionally applied only to State dams, were spatial and environmental in nature, often failing to consider economic and social issues, and lacked guidelines regarding institutionalisation, capacitation and empowerment for the implementation of these plans.
Zoning Plans
- Ministerial Approval [227 KB]
- 1999 Approved Zoning Plans
- Approved for 40 years unless reviewed:
- Approved for 5 years:
RMP Guidelines
RMPs underway
Final RMPs
Approved RMPs
SUBJECT |
STATUS |
Sustainable Utilisation Plan: Nandoni Dam, May 2003 [9.5 MB] |
Approved May 2003 |
Sustainable Utilisation Plan: Lake Matsamo, South Africa, January 2004 [171 KB] |
Approved January 2004 |
Sustainable Utilisation Plan: Lake Matsamo, South Africa, January 2004 [812 KB] |
Approved February 2004 |
Sustainable Utilisation Plan: Lake Matsamo, Swaziland, January 2004 [810 KB] |
Approved February 2004 |
Sustainable Utilisation Plan: Pongolapoort Dam, January 2006 [773 KB] |
Approved January 2004 |
| Sustainable Utilisation Plan: Vygeboom Dam, January 2004 [497 KB] |
Approved January 2004 |
| Resource Management Plan: Inyaka Dam, February 2007 [2.1 MB] |
Approved September 2007 |
RMP reviews
Contacts
Water Resources
Sub-directorate Environment and Recreation
Tel: 012-336 8224
Fax: 012-336 6608
E-mail: deb@dwaf.gov.za
Government Waterworks (State dams)
Directorate Integrated Environmental Engineering
Tel: 012 336 8681
Fax: 086 215 1589
E-mail: govenderm@dwa.gov.za
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