The purpose of this Act is to ensure that the nation's water resources are protected, used, developed, conserved, managed and controlled in ways which take into account amongst other factors—
| (a) |
meeting the basic human needs of present and future generation; |
| (b) |
promoting equitable access to water; |
| (c) |
redressing the results of past racial and gender discrimination; |
| (d) |
promoting the efficient, sustainable and beneficial use of water in the public interest; |
| (e) |
facilitating social and economic development, |
| (f) |
providing for growing demand for water use; |
| (g) |
protecting aquatic and associated ecosystems and their biological diversity; |
| (h) |
reducing and preventing pollution and degradation of water resources; |
| (i) |
meeting international obligations; |
| (j) |
promoting dam safety; |
| (k) |
managing floods and droughts, |
and for achieving this purpose, to establish suitable institutions and to ensure that they have appropriate community, racial and gender reprentation.
Statistics Act, 1999
