Media Statement Crocodile Restrictions on Irrigation December 2024

The purpose of this notice is to inform all water users to commence with immediate water use abstraction restrictions for all agricultural-related irrigation activities out of the Crocodile River and all of its tributaries.
The tributaries include but are not limited to the following river systems: Alexanderspruit, Blinkwater, Buffelskloof, Elands, Gladdespruit, Gutshwa, Houtbosloop, Lunsklip, Nels, Nsikazi, Stads, Sand River, Sterkspruit, Valyspruit, Vissipruit, Kaap River, White River and Zongagskraal Rivers and their catchments.
This includes abstraction from any dam or surface water resource within these catchments.