In today’s South Africa, it is critical to realise that appropriate and prudent integrated environmental management is essential to achieve sustainable development and to facilitate the achievement of both the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially poverty alleviation.
Our specialized training solutions improve your decision-making in environmental, waste and water governance and management. This results in improved standards in environmental decision-making throughout the country. The content of our training courses are based on international curriculums in the fields of environmental, water and waste governance. Some of our courses are accredited for CPD-points.
We also offer custom-made in-house training programmes on a number of specific environmental- and water governance matters.
Training courses
Courses
The conscientious manager, civil servant, employee and consultant understands that maintaining and improving his or her knowledge of the concepts and principles underpinning sustainability, integrated environmental management and risk management, as well as of recent developments in environmental legislation, specifically water and waste management laws and regulations, are critical to continue to make a difference to the future of our country. We provide training solutions in environmental, waste and water governance, which lead to improved decision-making.
Environmental, Waste and Water
Training Solutions
Since establishing CBSS in 2008, Carin Bosman, your course presenter, has presented more than 60 short training courses, and has trained more than a thousand delegates, from national, provincial and local government, universities, industries, mines, farming communities, and civil and community based organisations.
International water governance perspectives, sustainable water resources management initiatives, and the implementation of measures in South Africa through statutes such as the NEMA, NWA, WSA, and the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act, and relevant regulations.
Concepts and principles underpinning Groundwater Governance in the context of South African Framework environmental legislation, and focusses on pollution prevention, waste disposal, the remediation of contaminated land, and monitoring for regulatory purposes.
Practical understanding of the issues associated with waste generation, storage, transportation, treatment and disposal, and sustainable solutions to these issues based on legislative requirements, taking cognizance of the integrated waste management hierarchy.
Focuses on the design and implementation of a water quality monitoring programme, and covers the basic scientific concepts, including the monitoring cycle, and the selection of monitoring locations, frequencies of sampling, and variables for analysis. It also focusses on water quality monitoring data collection, including sampling techniques, the handling and transportation of samples, and considerations in the selection of laboratories for the analysis of specific variables.
Understanding of environmental authorisations, focusing on EIA, water use authorisation, and waste management facility license processes in the context of environmental management legislation, and to address practical pitfalls within these processes.
CBSS has developed a dedicated one-day Environmental Awareness Workshop that provides attendees with an overall awareness of the need for good environmental governance and an understanding of their liabilities, duties, and responsibilities in so far as compliance with environmental legislative requirements.
What our course attendees say
Water Governance Course
Excellent Presenter
☆☆☆☆☆
"Carin is an excellent presenter. I now understand the complexity of water use licenses, and how good water governance requires a change in human behaviour, to protect our health and the future of our children"
2 - 4 March 2020
Groundwater Governance Course
Will attend again!
☆☆☆☆☆
"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"
1 October 2019
Water Governance Course
Good value
☆☆☆☆☆
"Time very well spent, and value for money. Finally, I have a much clearer idea of legislative processes and the legal frameworks relating to water in South Africa."
17 - 19 September 2021
Lawyer
Water Governance Course
Very impressed
☆☆☆☆☆
"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"
CBSS will be presenting our popular three-day Training Course on Water Governance in South Africa from 5 to 7 May 2026, in Paarl, Western Cape Province. 3 CPD points.
05 - 07 May
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Western CapePontac Manor Hotel, 16 Zion Street, Paarl, Western Cape
CBSS will be presenting our popular three-day Training Course in Water Governance, in association with the Water Institute of South Africa (WISA), from 12 - 14 May 2026, in Durban, KZN Province.
12 - 14 May
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
DurbanMadeline Grove Guest House, Morningside, Durban
Carin Bosman (CBSS) and Nelda Smith (Pretoria University), in association with the Water Institute of South Africa (WISA), have developed a new Training Course in Water Quality Monitoring and Management.
We will be presenting it for the second time from 26 – 28 August 2025, in Pretoria, Gauteng Province.
02 - 04 Jun
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
PretoriaKniffel & Gaff Guesthouse, Nico Smith Street, Villeria, Pretoria
CBSS will be presenting a new two-day Masterclass in water use license applications (WULAs and eWULAAS), in association with the Water Institute of South Africa (WISA), from 23 - 24 June 2026, in Pretoria, Gauteng Province.
23 - 24 Jun
All Day
PretoriaKniffel & Gaff Guesthouse, Nico Smith Street, Villeria, Pretoria
CBSS will be presenting a new two-day Masterclass in water use license applications (WULAs and eWULAAS), in association with the Water Institute of South Africa (WISA), from 25 - 26 August 2026, in Paarl, Western CapeProvince.
25 - 26 Aug
All Day
Western CapePontac Manor Hotel, 16 Zion Street, Paarl, Western Cape
CBSS will be presenting our popular three-day Training Course in Water Governance, in association with the Water Institute of South Africa (WISA), from 15 - 17 September 2026, in Pretoria, Gauteng Province. 3 CPD points.
15 - 17 Sep
All Day
PretoriaKniffel & Gaff Guesthouse, Nico Smith Street, Villeria, Pretoria
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