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National Compliance Information Management System [NCIMS]
Industry
Industry

DWS HO to determine, develop and implement regulatory policies, strategies, guidelines and standard operation procedures & processes for compliance monitoring for the industrial sector (Industries, Public Institutions and Agric-processing) and continuously improve effective compliance monitoring of water users and provision of training & capacity building for compliance monitoring of these water users.
DWS RO ensuring the implementation and monitoring compliance to legislation particularly compliance monitoring to water use authorizations & CMAs perform compliance inspections and audits to ensure the water users comply to their water use authorisations

Irrigation
Irrigation

DWS HO to determine, develop and implement regulatory policies, strategies, guidelines and standard operation procedures & processes for compliance monitoring for the irrigation sector and continuously improve effective compliance monitoring of water users and provision of training & capacity building for compliance monitoring of these water users.
DWS RO ensuring the implementation and monitoring compliance to legislation particularly compliance monitoring to water use authorizations & CMAs perform compliance inspections and audits to ensure the water users comply to their water use authorisations

Stream Flow Reduction Activities
Stream Flow Reduction & Afforestation

DWS HO to determine, develop and implement regulatory policies, strategies, guidelines and standard operation procedures & processes for compliance monitoring for the stream flow reduction activities & forestry sectors and continuously improve effective compliance monitoring of water users and provision of training & capacity building for compliance monitoring of these water users.
DWS RO ensuring the implementation and monitoring compliance to legislation particularly compliance monitoring to water use authorizations & CMAs perform compliance inspections and audits to ensure the water users comply to their water use authorisations

Government
Government

DWS HO to determine, develop and implement regulatory policies, strategies, guidelines and standard operation procedures & processes for compliance monitoring for the government sector (National, Provincial and Local Government, WWTWs and Waste Disposal facilities) and continuously improve effective compliance monitoring of water users and provision of training & capacity building for compliance monitoring of these water users.
DWS RO ensuring the implementation and monitoring compliance to legislation particularly compliance monitoring to water use authorizations & CMAs perform compliance inspections and audits to ensure the water users comply to their water use authorisations

Mining
Mining

DWS HO to determine, develop and implement regulatory policies, strategies, guidelines and standard operation procedures & processes for compliance monitoring for the mining sector and continuously improve effective compliance monitoring of water users and provision of training & capacity building for compliance monitoring of these water users.
DWS RO ensuring the implementation and monitoring compliance to legislation particularly compliance monitoring to water use authorizations & CMAs perform compliance inspections and audits to ensure the water users comply to their water use authorisations

Purpose of Compliance Monitoring:

To determine a facility’s status of compliance against relevant legal and technical requirements in terms of legislation and authorisations conditions / permit conditions. It involves a planned and scheduled monitoring by the regulated authority in which all the conditions of an authorisation are inspect / audit for compliance, where the water user is afforded an opportunity to indicate compliance with the conditions and is requested to substantiate compliance with proof of evidence. Normally conducted in accordance with a prepared systematic scheduled plan and conducted throughout the life cycle of a facility’s authorised activity or project.

Objectives of Compliance Monitoring:

  • Conducting for the purposes of ascertaining and monitoring compliance with the mandated legislation and water use authorisations under the NWA, and other relevant environmental legislation (e.g. Waste Act)
  • The inspection / auditing of the operators’ self-regulation, monitoring, auditing and reporting systems, as prescribed by licences, permits or any other legal instrument in order to check the organisation’s ability to comply with conditions and requirements as set out in those legal instruments. To verify status of compliance and performance of a water sector.
  • Inspect and ensure compliance through-out the project life cycle of the water use from construction, rehabilitation, operation and maintenance of a facility
  • Creating awareness of water use compliance through the visible and inquisitive presence of the regulator (Compliance Promotion)
  • To achieve compliance either through implementation of action plans and conducting follow up inspections to ensure that the findings are implemented or through referral and follow up to Enforcement.
  • Outcome of monitoring compliance through inspections or audits are an INSPECTION REPORT or an AUDIT FINDING REPORT which concludes and details on status of compliance/non-compliance.

Goals of Compliance Monitoring:

  • promoting good governance.
  • ensuring fairness.
  • strengthening the credibility of environmental requirements.
  • protecting goods and services provided to consumers by a well-functioning ecosystem.
  • protection of public health and safety.
  • lower impacts/risks posed to the water resource quality objectives.
  • demonstrating the DWS’ compliance commitment by creating credible presence.
Industrial

About Dam Safety Office

The Dam Safety Office was established to implement and administer the DAM SAFETY REGULATIONS (published in Government Notice R. 139 of 24 February 2012) which became fully effective in January 1987 and are still in force under the new National Water Act, 1998 [NWA] (Act 36 of 1998) [PDF - 240 KB]. Only dams with a safety risk (i.e. dams with a maximum wall height that exceeds 5,0 m and with a storage capacity of more than 50 000 m3, or any other dam declared as a dam with a safety risk) are subject to these Regulations.

Mission

  • The Dam Safety Office's mission is to promote the safety of new and existing dams with a safety risk so as to reduce the potential harm to the public, damage to property and resource quality.

Functions

  • Development, implementation and administration of dam safety legislation and policies.
  • Management of the dam safety programme.
  • Enforce/facilitate compliance with the dam safety legislation by dam owners.
  • Technical assessments of dam safety evaluation reports and the various licence applications regarding construction of new dams or upgrading of existing dams. This includes technical evaluation of design reports, design drawings, construction progress and completion reports, operation and maintenance (O&M) manuals and emergency preparedness plans (EPPs).
  • Audit and monitor progress made with the dam safety programme.