Olifants-Doorn - A class act

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The decision process on possible future usage of significant water resources in the Olifants/Doorn Water Management Area is drawing to a close. Article by Petro Kotzé. The Olifants/Doorn Water Management Area (WMA), comprising the Olifants, Doring, Sandveld, Kouebokkeveld and Knersvlake sub-areas, is special both because of its unique ecology and the range of industry and communities dependent on it. The area also serves as the first WMA that will be able to pick the proverbial fruit of the current Water Resource Classification process, a long-outstanding imperative of the National Water Act of 1998. When the process is completed, a management framework describing the extent to which every wetland, river, lake and aquifer in the area can be used, as well as the level of protection it will be afforded, will be in place.

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