Water body to meet on Monday

The Upper Kowie Water Sanitation and Catchment Management Forum will hold a half-day open meeting on Monday 15 May at the City Hall, the municipality has announced.

The meeting which will be co-chaired by Matthew Weaver and Ananias Mamabolo aims to share information and facilitate discussions on issues including: water quality in the Bloukrans River; Grahamstown water supply status, and conservation and demand measures; progress on gazetting of water restrictions for irrigation in target areas; and upcoming water, sanitation and catchment related events.

This meeting will be open to the general public and cover a range of issues including the drought, Grahamstown water supply, municipal responses and planning, Bloukrans River health and up and coming events.

Upper Kowie Water, Sanitation and Catchment Management Forum was established last October and is a voluntary forum where role players and stakeholders can participate, and contribute to water resource management in a catchment. It’s supported by the Department of Water and Sanitation. In Makana, they’ve combined to form a water, sanitation and catchment forum.

Some of the forum’s objectives are to ensure that government manages water catchments sustainably to enable reliable water service delivery, monitoring the environmental impact on the catchment and enhancing transparent decision-making and two-way information flow between the government and the people.

For more information, members of the public should call Matthew Weaver 046 603 7687/ 072 705 6433/ email ru.ac.za or Ananias Mogoboya Mamabolo 043 604 5467/ 083 842 2595/