On 2 - 5 August 2011, the Portfolio Committee undertook an oversight visit to the Gauteng Province to hold a workshop with the Department of Water Affairs and Department of Environmental Affairs to discuss, among others, the outstanding matters after various interactions and strategic plan discussions between the Portfolio Committee and the departments. The workshop focused on the following critical areas - review of the work of the Water Trading Entity, optimal institutional arrangement for the establishment of annual water tariff increases, feasibility and appropriateness of an independent regulator, overview of all databases and statistics captured by the Departments and its entities on matters relating to the water and environmental sectors, review of the seven (7) reconciliation/feasibility plans of the Department of Water Affairs, compilation of the South African Outlook and study on the health of rivers.