The copyright of the data remains with
the Department: Water And Sanitation. This approval to use the data
cannot be construed as a transfer of copyright.
2. Use of Data
The use of data is restricted to use for academic, research or personal purposes
Data may not be sold (value added or not)
The recipient of the data does not have the right to distribute any portion of the data to any third party. The Department: Water And Sanitation retains all rights to distribute the data to third parties, and the data remains the property of the Department: Water And Sanitation.
Access to this data is limited solely to the registered user
Data may be distributed within your organisation only, provided that your organisation accepts and complies with the terms and conditions laid out in this document.
The exploitation of the data for commercial purposes is not included in this permission to use the data. All requests for additional right of use must be requested in writing to the Director: Surface and Groundwater Information, Department: Water And Sanitation, private Bag x313, Pretoria, 0001. Data may not be used for requested purpose before written approval of Director: Surface and Groundwater Information has been received.
3. Data Quality
All data is supplied with no expressed or implied warranty as to its suitability for purpose, geometric accuracy or completeness.
All data is supplied free of charge on the condition that:
- any errors of DWS data will be
reported to Directorate : Surface and Groundwater Information, Department: Water
and Sanitation, private Bag x313, pretoria, 0001.
- all error corrections and/or
enhancements of data will be offered free of charge to the Department: Water
and Sanitation.
4. Status of data
Data is continuously updated. The data set(s) supplied are already historical on the day of supply. Department: Water And Sanitation has no duty to ensure the recipient of the data receives subsequent updates. It is the responsibility of the recipient of the data to request subsequent updates.
5. Acknowledgement
Whenever used in publications or the electronic media, the Department of Water And Sanitation is to be mentioned as the proprietor of the relevant copyright