The registration of irrigation water use (B)

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REGISTRATIONS The next questions put to Mr Schoeman concerned the verification of registrations and the significance of the process in practice. He put us in the picture: “The registration process required that all water uses, without consideration of legal status, had to be registered. The only requirement was that it must be an existing use, whether lawful or not. The verification of registered water use is critical since lack of proper verification may lead to a situation in which the injustices of the past, such as where a water user is using more than his fair share, are perpetuated unnoticed. “After a detailed study and a comparison of every registered water use against water use entitlements, controls and restrictions, and after all other supporting material such as satellite imagery, aerial photographs and field survey information have been consulted, the registrations can be classified as shown in Table 1. “The process of data verification and capture on GIS is exhaustive.

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