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The main objective of Crocodile West River System Reconciliation Strategy Study
is to put in place arrangements and resources for the on-going maintenance and
implementation of the Strategy and also to establish a Strategy Steering
Committee (SSC) with a clearly defined mandate.
The Strategy was primarily focussed on the quantitive reconciliation of the
requirements for and availability of water, with due consideration of water
quality where it impacts on the reconciliation. Its main aim is to ensure
sufficient and reliable supply of water of appropriate quality to all existing
as well as future users, taking into account provision for the Ecological
Reserve. This should be achieved within the framework of the best utilisation of
water resources, at the lowest cost and in an environmentally sustainable
manner.
The Strategy is targeted at water related issues. It caters for existing as well
as future needs and is sufficiently comprehensive and flexible to enable quick
response to changing circumstances. The Strategy is cognisant of possible future
scenarios and impacts, and identifies preferred options and interventions that
could be implemented as being most appropriate to the situation. Although a
chronology of events and time scales are considered, the Strategy should not be
viewed as a rigid singular plan with fixed sequencing and time scales. Rather,
it is intended to be both flexible and robust under changing conditions. The
development of the Strategy was facilitated in an open process and one of the
mechanisms employed was a SSC that is representative of sectors
important to the Study. The SSC is a voluntary body operating at
a strategic level and ensuring that the technical aspect of the Study is
transparent, open and consultative and that cooperative governance is embraced.
Further objectives of the Study are:
Analysis of water demand profile and future water requirements; Identification of interventions that will reconcile water requirements with available water up to 2030; Integration of augmentation and bulk supply options to achieve optimized overall benefits, as well as; Prepare a Report for the 2012 Crocodile West River System Reconciliation Strategy
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