The Department of Water and Sanitation says it food security isn’t at risk.
The Department of Water and Sanitation has defended its controversial draft regulations, setting minimum black South African shareholding requirements for water licencing applications in the country.According to the draft regulations, certain enterprises applying for water use licenses to take or store water will, in the future, have to allocate shares of up to 75% to black South Africans for such water use licenses to be granted.
Agricultural industry group AgriSA said the regulations were the most radical and sweeping effort to date toward changing the demographics concerning water use in South Africa. “This is because focussing solely on ownership, to the exclusion of all other relevant factors, will mean the loss of water resources for numerous currently viable commercial farming enterprises,” it added.
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