The Acting Director-General of the DWS has, in terms of sections 13(1) and 63(1)(a) of the NWA, published the classes of water resources and the resource quality objectives for the Mvoti to Umzimkulu catchments.
The purpose of the resource quality objectives is to establish clear goals relating to the quality of the relevant water resources. In determining resource quality objectives a balance must be sought between the need to protect and sustain water resources on the one hand, and the need to develop and use them on the other.