WESSA Strategic Review Report_2022

POLLUTION REDUCTION

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 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. • 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

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

Three sub-themes have been identified under the key theme of Pollution

Aquatic pollution

Terrestrial pollution

Air pollution

(rivers, wetlands, estuaries and marine)

How

Programmes and Projects

Reactive Advocacy through the Environmental

Education and Training

Governance Committee

Think tanks

Clean-ups with membership

Symposiums

Convening role

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