20190903 08204500 1.0 TRUE WMA_2004_with_new_landmass_boundary The water management areas are the areas whereby regional or catchment levels will be managed. The National Water Act (Act 36 of 1998) requires the progressive development of a National Water Resource Strategy (NWRS), which provides a framework for the protection, use, development, conservation, management and control of water resources for the country as a whole. The new DWA landmass coastal boundary and the northern boundary of the 2011 released Demarcation Board Municipal boundaries were used to re-align this dataset to the DWA Standard RSA landmass bounday. This alignment was applied to the 2004 WMA boundary dataset.