KSA 9: Business Development and Innovation
Thrust 3: Business Development
Programme 2: Impact Expansion
Title : Water innovations market demand analysis in the mining sector
Contact Person: Chantal Ramcharan-Kotze <chantalrk@wrc.org.za>
Closing Date: 04 December 2020
The mining industry has for many decades contributed significantly to South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). However, this is at an externalised environmental cost including negative impacts on surface and groundwater, poor waste management, acid mine water formation and ecological degradation. Section 28 of the MPRDA imposes full rehabilitation of the mining area on the mine owner; whilst the National Water Act requires that mine owners cease, modify, comply, eliminate and remedy pollution impacts on water resources.
