#19: Greater uMngeni basin

The Greater uMngeni basin is a densely populated and highly anthropologically altered area in which water demands for urban, agricultural, and industrial use are high. Since the enactment of the National Water Act in 1998, South Africa still has to implement key components of the act including the catchment management strategies, which aim to outline actions in order to deal with the various demands posed on water resources. During the last 20 years, stakeholders in the area took many voluntary and informal actions while waiting for the official

Governance can be defined as the various institutionalised modes of social coordination to produce and implement collectively binding rules, or to provide collective goods (Börzel & Risse, 2010,p. 114).

Börzel, T. A., & Risse, T. (2010). Governance Without a State: Can It Work? Regulation & Governance, 4(2), 113–134. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5991.2010.01076.x

Processes describe policy implementation rather than the development of formal institutions. This focus takes into account that the bottleneck for policy effectiveness is often implementation rather than policy development.

to start. The challenge is to find suitable solutions to the manifold claims to water resources while building on the achievements within the river basin.