3. CMAs are up to date on the licensing of water use, and able to monitor compliance and act on compliance failures. 4. CMAs are able to focus on water quality and protection of water resources against pollution from dysfunctional wastewater works, mines, industry, and agriculture. 5. CMAs are good at engaging the public for awareness, and supporting active participation of stakeholders in water resource management. 6. CMAs are able to plan strategically and respond to challenges through adaptive management. 7. Proto-CMAs are not able to operate to the same effect as CMAs, due to a different work culture. 8. CMAs will be positioned to deal with current failures in the water sector which are necessitating other actors to stepping in to fulfil functions neglected by DWS in catchments.
Limpopo super-CMA According to national office DWS officials, the Limpopo CMA as it is currently demarcated (area 1 A and B below – from the Marico (Madikwe), via the Crocodile (West) river, where the Mokolo Crocodile West Augmentation Project (MCWAP) is proposed, past the Sand River to the Nzhelele), will go through an establishment phase (starting with the board), and then be expanded to include the current Olifants CMA. In other words, the two CMAs will merge. This will bring together the Olifants, which has been through a significant process of governance development, with the Limpopo which has not. The differences are instructive.
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