To date there have been a limited number of detailed water footprint studies undertaken in SA. For example, SABMiller,
together with WWF-UK, investigated the water footprints of crops for beer production, such as barley in the Northern
Cape Province and maize in the North West Province (SABMiller and WWF-UK, 2009). Preliminary investigations
have also been carried out by the Breede-Gouritz Catchment Management Agency (formerly Breede-Overberg Catchment
Management Agency), and specifically for one catchment, the Breede-Overberg (BOCMA, 2011). This paper presents a
first WFA of SA as a whole, based on data for the time period 1996–2005.