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Viviane Kinyaga22 May 2014
Windhoek
Regional Technical Seminar on Project Implementation
Data sources: Legal & institutional aspects: Namibia
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Transboundary Legal framework
• Revised SADC Protocol on Shared Watercourses
• ORASECOM Agreement
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Transboundary Institutional framework
• SADC Secretariat - Water Division
• Orange-Senqu River Commission
o Groundwater task force
o Programmes/projects
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Domestic Legal framework
• Water Act, Act 54 of 1956 (water investigations; planning for water infrastructure; develop water schemes; pollution control; conservation etc)
• Water Resources Management Act, Act 24 of 2004 (IWRM; water advisory council; water regulatory board; water tribunal; basin management committees)
• Water Resources Management Act, Act XX of 2013
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Other domestic Legal framework
• Mountain Catchment Areas Act No. 63 of 1970
• Water Research Act No. 34 of 1971 (amended in 1978)
• Assignment of Power Act No. 4 of 1990
• Namibia Water Corporation Act No 12 of 1997
• Environmental Management Act, Act No. 7 of 2007
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Other domestic Legal framework
• Communal Land Reform Act No. 6 of 1981
• Regional Councils Act, 1992 (Act No 22 of 1992)
• Local Authorities Act, 1992 (Act No. 23 of 1992)
• Pollution Control and Waste Management Bill
• Green scheme??
• The Constitution
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Domestic Institutional framework
• Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
o Directorate of Resource Management
o Directorate of Rural Water Supply
• NamWater
• Regional Councils; Local Authorities
• Decentralised bodies - Water Area Management Institutions (Karst Water Management Body; Basin Management Committees; Water Point Associations)
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Legal & institutional framework – data sources
• DRFN
• Department of Water Affairs and Forestry
• National Planning Commission
• Environmental Law and Policy in Namibia
• Assessments – IWRM Plan report no. 2
• Thesis reports of students
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Water resources abstraction and use
• Regulations for “old Act”
• Draft regulations for 2013 Water Act
• Tariffs, water regulator in new Act
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Pollution control
• Regulations for Water Act
• Regulations for Environmental Management Act
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Ownership of groundwater resources
• Ownership vested in the state
• Certain users have responsibilities to develop and manage water resources (NamWater, some local authorities, freehold farmers)
• Development controlled through permit system (check law in this regard)
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Thank you