| Water Management Area | Natural resource | Usable return flow | Total local yield | ||||
| Surface water | Ground-water | Irrigation | Urban | Mining and bulk industry | |||
| (Mm3/a) | |||||||
| 1 | Limpopo | 160 | 98 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 281 |
| 2 | Luvuvhu/Letaba | 244 | 43 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 310 |
| 3 | Crocodile West and Marico | 203 | 146 | 44 | 282 | 41 | 716 |
| 4 | Olifants | 410 | 99 | 44 | 42 | 14 | 609 |
| 5 | Inkomati | 816 | 9 | 53 | 8 | 11 | 897 |
| 6 | Usutu to Mhlathuze | 1019 | 39 | 42 | 9 | 1 | 1110 |
| 7 | Thukela | 666 | 15 | 23 | 24 | 9 | 737 |
| 8 | Upper Vaal | 598 | 32 | 11 | 343 | 146 | 1130 |
| 9 | Middle Vaal | −67 | 54 | 16 | 29 | 18 | 50 |
| 10 | Lower Vaal | −54 | 126 | 52 | 0 | 2 | 126 |
| 11 | Mvoti to Umzimkulu | 433 | 6 | 21 | 57 | 6 | 523 |
| 12 | Mzimvubu to Keiskamma | 777 | 21 | 17 | 39 | 0 | 854 |
| 13 | Upper Orange | 4311 | 65 | 34 | 37 | 0 | 4447 |
| 14 | Lower Orange | −1083 | 24 | 96 | 1 | 0 | −962 |
| 15 | Fish to Tsitsikamma | 260 | 36 | 103 | 19 | 0 | 418 |
| 16 | Gouritz | 191 | 64 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 275 |
| 17 | Olifants/Doring | 266 | 45 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 335 |
| 18 | Breede | 687 | 109 | 54 | 16 | 0 | 866 |
| 19 | Berg | 403 | 57 | 11 | 37 | 0 | 505 |
| Total South Africa | 10,240 | 1088 | 675 | 970 | 254 | 13,227 | |
| 77.4% | 8.2% | 5.1% | 7.3% | 2.0% | 100% | ||