It is worth remembering
that water management is a
complex field, and everyone
involved is on a steep
learning curve with the new
licensing system.
Water Sewage & Effluent May/June 2018
About the author
Jacky Burke
is a principal
consultant with
29 years of
experience in the
fields of water-
use authorisation
and integrated
water quality
management. Her
expertise includes water-use licensing:
applications and audits; integrated
water and waste management
plans; rehabilitation strategy and
implementation programmes; water
quality assessment, pollution source
identification and control; integrated
water resource management; and
training and capacity building. Jacky
holds a BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
degree.
and facilitate the annual Integrated
Water and Waste Management Plan
(IWWMP) update. From a qualitative
point of view, it allows users to assess
the monitoring data against WUL limits,
and take corrective action where limits
are exceeded — among other benefits.
Another
valuable
aspect
of
our methodology is the Licence
Implementation Register (LIR), to
measure what has been done (