DRAFT WESSA Strategic Review Narrative Report June 2022

POLLUTION REDUCTION

Terrestrial Pollution opportunities • WESSA aims to address the well-being of South Africans and their right to live in healthy environments. Our role will be to reinforce this. • WESSA recognises that pollution requires a lot of attention, from a human health perspective, and leads to biodiversity loss. • We will foster synergy with Membership under this theme. • We will focus on the specifics of terrestrial pollution such as soil contamination, and will determine what these focus areas will be. • We recognise that illegal dumping sites lead to soil pollution. • We will focus on terrestrial pollution as the tool to use to achieve clean rivers.

Develop though leadership and understanding of the critical pollution impacts facing South Africa.

Two sub-themes have been identified under the key theme of Pollution Reduction:

Aquatic pollution

Terrestrial pollution

(rivers, wetlands, estuaries and marine)

How

Think tanks

Advocacy

Symposiums

Clean-ups

Convening role

Aquatic Pollution: rivers, wetlands, estuaries and marine opportunities • WESSA will focus on the upper, mid, and lower sections and pollutants in our water ways, and the subsequent marine impact • We will interrogate the causes and seek accountability • We will focus on advocacy through the mobilisation of political and civic groups

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