RAND WATER ANNUAL REPORT 2023

Environmental Pillar

Progress Update

Workforce inhalable hazard exposure.

No inhalable hazards exposure experienced.

Protecting our Natural Resources Rehabilitation and Restoration

Rand Water properties, servitudes, sites, reservoirs and pipelines were monitored, maintained and environmental rehabilitation undertaken. The following projects were implemented. • Horticultural maintenance implemented on 267 ha; this includes the creation of firebreaks on pipe storage areas. • 8 032m 3 of reno-mattresses/ gabions, grass blocks and pipe encasement were installed to reinstate a footprint of approximately 11 944 m 2. • 220m of security razor wire fence line at Driefontein has been erected. • A sink hole measuring 65m 3 was backfilled on the pipeline at Libabon. In ensuring sustainable environment, erosion control was monitored, maintained, and reinstated on land that occurs over and adjacent to Rand Water properties, reservoir and pipelines. We have implemented 10 projects implemented to date as part of environment and sustainable development initiatives with the purpose of controlling the erosion, thereby conserving our natural resources, and reducing environmental harm. The removal and control of listed alien invader plants was undertaken as part of horticultural site maintenance on Rand Water properties, and this was updated in the sites alien invader plant removal programme. We have also implemented Clearing of Alien Vegetation within Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality with the aim of protecting underground water. The project was implemented in partnership with the Department of Forestry Fisheries and Environment (DEFFE).

Erosion Control

Alien Invasives

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