Our Environmental- and Water Governance and Management Solutions
We specialise in providing cooperative and collaborative solutions in Environmental- and Water Management and Governance
Welcome to
Carin Bosman Sustainable Solutions
Our environmental- and water governance solutions
help you to take sustainable management decisions
We have Solutions
Its the name of our business...
We offer a variety of environmental and water management and governance solutions to our clients:
We have provided sustainable solutions in especially water governance to many different types of clients, including:
- mining companies,
- petro-chemical and other chemical industries,
- agro-businesses,
- environmental consultancies,
- local municipalities;
- provincial and national government departments,
- water user associations and irrigation boards,
- labour unions,
- environmental NGOs, and
- universities.
Environmental- and Water Governance
What is it all about?
Our environmental- and water governance solutions can help you to take sustainable management decisions
READ MORE Some of our clients who have benefited from our solutions:
What's with the elephants..?
Our Values
We value fairness in decision-making
If you do not legally require an authorisation, it is unfair to expect you to apply for one. It is also unfair to unnecessarily delay the processing of your application, or to expect you to comply with unreasonable requirements. Environmental- and water governance is all about fairness in administrative decision-making.
We value scientific integrity
We value scientific correctness, because the decisions that are taken based on environmental data (especially water quality and quantity monitoring data), can have serious long term consequences, not only for the environment. We therefore make sure to only use verified and scientifically sound data and information.
We value knowledge transfer
Environmental and water governance is about people, and if your people lack the knowledge to distinguish good governance from bad governance, their decisions will reflect it. Our training courses are designed to provide the skills and attitudes required to ensure that good governance decisions are recognised, and bad ones challenged.
Our courses are rated by our learners to be of outstanding quality.
What some of our delegates had to say about our Courses:
Carin knows environmental management so well and she explains it and makes it easy to follow. It was such a pleasure to be in her class"
Thank you for an excellent course. I enjoyed it and learnt a lot from the presenter and fellow class mates - well done 🙂
WATER GOVERNANCE
"Brilliant Course. Good case studies, and very relevant practical exercises. Perfect Venue"
I will definitely attend again as I find it very helpful and meaningful to engage with like minded people to discuss and argue about present day water governance problems and seek solutions for them
"This was an excellent course and a good introduction to SA Environmental Authorisations. The real-life case studies and scenarios added a lot of value"
Time very well spent. Finally, I have a much clearer idea of legislative processes and the legal frameworks relating to water in South Africa.
"I have never had such a lively presenter. This made learning enjoyable and fun, and I learned a LOT!
Carin, you really know your stuff"
Fantastic facilitator with amazing knowledge on the topic. I definitely learned way more than expected. Excited to apply this new knowledge - thank you!
"The way the topic was addressed, from start to finish, theory and practical, gave solutions for a lot of waste management problems we are currently experiencing"
"The course was very interesting, lively and informative. The presenter is exceptional, and made a difficult subject easy to understand. A very good course"
"Very, very impressed with the level of practical knowledge Carin has, and the manner in which she conveyed it to us. This was extremely valuable"
"Course content was excellent and it covered all my expectations. Presenter is very knowledgeable"
"Was very beneficial and I now have a far better understanding of the importance and enormity of water governance, and the role (and complexity!) of water use licenses"
"You are the BEST!!
RE A LEBOGA!!!"
"Please roll this course out to ALL decision-makers and ALL new employees, especially in the DWS, so that they will know how to deal with water use authorisations"
Amazing input, feedback, clarification and motivation from the full course I did in
2015.. believe we should do this every year!
Carin is an excellent presenter, I enjoyed her training. She gave real life examples to explain the material, which made it more interesting
The two handbooks are great and I have already consulted them a few times since the course. I would really recommend the course to anyone interested in water governance
I attended this course because two colleagues have done it, and they just could not close their mouths about it - it was all that they said, and MORE!!
I enjoyed the entire structure of the course- Carin ensured basic understanding of hydrology and geohydroloy were understood and all relevant principles covered. The practical did challenge us and helped us to grasp what was taught in the lectures. Thanks!!
Carin was inspirational. Her teachings on how good Water Governance requires a change in behaviour for the protection of human health continues to resonate with me weeks after the course and will do into the future!
NEW from our Blog...
We don't Blog often, but when we do, it's packed with Good Governance Goodies - have a look:
WISA Webinar – 16 July 2020: How to turn your Water Quality Data into Water Management Knowledge
Carin Bosman presented a Webinar for WISA on 16 July 2020, with the topic "How to turn your Water Quality Data into Water Management Knowledge" - you can watch it here
CBSS is COVID-19 ready and remains operational
CBSS has implemented measures to be ready for the COVID-19 outbreak, and will continue to provide services of outstanding quality to our clients. (For more information about the spread of COVID19 in South Africa, visit https://sacoronavirus.co.za/)
Coal mines non-compliant with water use licence conditions – CER
According to the CER, mining companies ascribe their non-compliance with WUL conditions to government’s failure to effectively monitor compliance and gross negligence on the part of environmental auditors.
This is very true.