ENVIRONMENT and ENERGY
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National water strategy:
water reuse
By Extract from the NWRS-2 by the Department of Water and Sanitation
The intent of the water reuse strategy is to encourage wise decisions
relating to water reuse for all the different decision makers.
Promoting sound decision-making
The implementation of water reuse can take
place at different scales or levels: at a very local
level involving a single facility such as a building
or a factory, for a group or cluster of facilities,
at a treatment facility level (for example,
such as a municipal treatment works), or at
a river system level (natural drainage areas/
catchments). Decision-making will vary across
these applications and could involve individual
or groups of households or businesses,
municipalities, and national government
(including entities owned by government).
There are three important factors that can
enable and support good decision making:
• A sound and clear policy and legislative
framework, that is, decision-makers and
water users know what their rights and
obligations are, and what they can and
cannot do.
• The benefits, risks, and costs are clearly
under