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The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) is a wholly Government owned entity tasked with managing the country’s water resources.

The Authority falls under the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Climate and it was established in 2000 following the promulgation of the Zinwa Act and the Water Act.

What is a water abstraction agreement?

A water abstraction agreement is a contract that any person, entity or organisation that needs a reservation for their use of raw water from Zinwa managed or State dams enters into with Zinwa for the provision of his or her water requirements

Why is an agreement required?

Water abstraction agreements allow ZINWA to effectively plan the allocation of limited water resources available in its storage reservoirs to meet the competing needs of water users. The agreement forms the contract which spells the obligations of ZINWA in supplying the raw water and that of the water user who pays for the services rendered.

Who needs to get a water abstraction agreement?

In terms of the Water Act, anyone using raw water for purposes other than primary purposes should have a water abstraction agreement. This includes irrigating farmers, mines, local Authorities, agricultural estates and industries. In addition, Statutory Instrument 206 of 2001 compels everyone using water from Zinwa managed dams to have an agreement when it says;

“No surface water permit shall be required of a person who wishes to abstract surface water from water storage works vested in the State or the National Water Authority for any purpose mentioned in paragraph (a), but such person must enter into an abstraction agreement with the National Water Authority in terms of subsection (6) of section 39of the Act.

How does one get an agreement?

Any person wishing to use water from Zinwa managed or State dams should approach the respective ZINWA Catchment office from which they would want to abstract water and lodge an application for water stating the intended use of the water, their physical address, the amount of water required, point of abstraction and crop intended for irrigation in the case of farmers.

Do I Need ZINWA Permission To Sink or Drill A Borehole in Zimbabwe?

If Zinwa, after considering the application is satisfied that there is enough water in their dams to meet the applicant’s needs, the two parties will then enter into a water abstraction agreement.

How does the agreement system work?

Once a water abstraction agreement is entered into, ZINWA will reserve the full allocation as requested by the user in its dams and releases the water as per the water user’s water orders from time to time until the full allocation is exhausted. The agreement holder becomes exclusively entitled to the allocation specified in the agreement which they are assured to get and the water cannot be released to any other water user.

The user is also expected to install, at his own cost, a meter or any other acceptable measuring device to measure his consumption and adherence to his allocation. Farmers wishing to abstract water from ZINWA managed dams are encouraged to work closely with their extension officers or other people with appropriate expertise to help them fully appreciate the water requirements for different crops.

This helps them in coming up with proper water requirements when applying for agreements.

What is the purpose of ZINWA’s regulation of groundwater?

Zinwa’s regulation of groundwater resources is part of its mandate to assist the Minister in the management planning and development of the country’s water resources. If you check the water Act of 1998, section 6(1) (General functions of the Minister) some of the Minister’s functions are stated as being “to develop policies to guide the orderly and integrated planning of the optimum development utilisation and protection of the Country’s water resources in the national interest.

Zinwa regulates groundwater to ensure the Minister knows what’s going on with regards to groundwater resources, which is quite delicate and needs lots of expertise to monitor and even correct anomalies that might arise from time to time in the sector.

Why should boreholes be registered for a fee when borehole water does not require treatment and reticulation costs over and above the fact that access to water is a human right?

Boreholes should be registered for a fee to enable Sub catchment Councils to sustain the field operations of physically visiting borehole owners in their areas to check and monitor if the owners are using the borehole water for the purposes declared in the borehole registration forms.

This helps ensure that the information collected by the Sub catchment councils during the borehole registration process info which will be passed on to Zinwa and to the Minister, does not get distorted.

For instance, one might register their borehole for domestic consumption but use the water for bulk water trading, the amount of water being abstracted will be more than what will be in the database, to avoid that mismatch Sub catchment council offices have to visit borehole owners once every quarter to monitor the actual water usage from drilled boreholes and to enforce compliance hence the borehole registration fee which is a once off payment.

Is ZINWA responsible for regulating the operations of private borehole drillers?

Zinwa is not responsible for regulating the operations of private drillers in Zimbabwe. Zinwa once got an instruction to register drillers in Zimbabwe but has long stopped doing so in 2013 as it has no legal stand on to resist other drillers when it is also one of the drillers. So Zinwa is not responsible for regulating the operations of private drillers in Zimbabwe.

Currently, no law gives Zinwa such powers.

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