UPL Water Use Licence Forum

The UPL Water Use Licence (WUL) Forum is a platform for stakeholders to assist UPL in carrying out its legal mandate to report on its licence and ensure compliance. It is an opportunity for a collective approach in assisting UPL to meet and improve its WUL compliance actions; and to promote transparency and better-informed decision-making for the implementation of the WUL based on meaningful involvement of key parties.

The Agenda, minutes and any important notices relevant to the forum and the stakeholders may be accessed here.

 Draft Agenda is available here: 250507 UPL WUL Forum Draft Agenda V1 (185 KB)

Minutes of our most recent meeting are available here: 250507 UPL WUL Forum_Minutes V2 (439 KB)

UPL WUL Forum Terms of Reference were discussed at the first meeting of the WUL Forum in November 2024, refinements were proposed and drafted into the Terms of Reference. The Terms of Reference were adopted at the meeting of 12 February 2025 and are available for reference: 250212 UPL_WUL Forum ToR Adopted (186 KB)

Noting this page is for the UPL Water Use Licence Forum, if you require any further information regarding the UPL Chemical Spill, the official website and repository of all documents related to the UPL Chemical Spill is at the following link: https://www.coastkzn.co.za/themes/coastal-issues/upl-chemical-spill/

[Note: We respectfully request that you do not distribute or share the forum documents randomly. The context surrounding the presentations is as important as the presentations themselves. People who were not able to attend the meeting, or have never been, may not have either context or holistic understanding of the material presented.]