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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...
Carin Bosman Sustainable Solutions (CBSS) was established to deliver sustainable solutions for environmental and water management and governance challenges throughout southern Africa. We meet the needs and expectations of our clients by providing advisory and consulting services, by developing environmental data digitisation and visualisation solutions, and by presenting training courses of outstanding quality.
We specialise in providing cooperative and collaborative solutions in environmental, waste and water governance and management, which helps you to take better business management decisions. Our services include water use license applications (WULAs), water governance assessments, IWWMPs, WUL audits, and much more.
We create innovative solutions, services and products to convert your environmental data into interpreted graphs and reports that will lead to improved environmental decision-making, and that will improve your environmental compliance and reporting, reducing your risks and liabilities.
We provide specialised training services in Environmental, Waste, and Water Management and Governance to facilitate capacity building and improved knowledge-based environmental decision-making.
Client focused solutions
Our Clients
CBSS combines years of experience with the latest policy thinking and information technology, to develop solutions that will last beyond tomorrow, and that will lead to better decision-making by government, industry, and civil society at large.
We have provided sustainable solutions to many different types of clients:
- Petrochemical and Other Industries
- Mining Companies
- Hydropower
- Government Departments
- Local Municipalities
- Agro-businesses
- Water User Associations and Irrigation Boards
- Universities
- Environmental Consultancies
- Environmental Law Firms
- Environmental NGOs
- Labour Unions
- Waste Management Companies
Why Choose Us
Our Values
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
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
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
Scheduled Course Dates
April 2025
Water Governance Training Course – Pretoria
May 2025
Water Governance Training Course – Western Cape
Water Quality Monitoring for Better Water Management: Training Course – Pretoria
June 2025
Water Governance Training Course – Lowveld
July 2025
Water Governance Training Course – KwaZulu-Natal
Comments on the Draft Revised Regulations for WULAs
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Sappi Ngodwana Mill IWWMP and WUL Amendment and Renewal
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Let’s Collaborate to take sustainable decisions in environmental- and water governance.