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1 online resource (xxviii, 278 pages) |
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Global issues in water policy ; v. 2 |
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Global issues in water policy ; v. 2.
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Contents |
The political, social and economic context of changing water policy in South Africa post-1994 / Barbara van Koppen, Barbara Schreiner, and Saliem Fakir -- Water resource situation, strategies and allocation regimes in South Africa / Johan van Rooyen, Marna de Lange, and Rashid Hassan -- Water services in South Africa, 1994-2009 / Kathy Eales -- Water, sanitation and wastewater management : some questions for national water security in South Africa / Kathy Eales -- Transforming legal access to water to redress social inequity and economic inefficiency / Gavin Quibell ... [et a.] -- Protecting aquatic ecosystem health for sustainable use / Harrison Pienaar, Antonia Belcher, and Dana F. Grobler -- Catchment management agencies : a case study of institutional reform in South Africa / Eiman Karar [and others] -- National water security : planning and implementation / Chris Moseki, Toriso Tlou, and Cornelius Ruiters -- Pricing of water for cost recovery, economic efficiency and social equity / Mahomed Vawda, Nicola King, and Mike Muller -- Mainstreaming gender in water management in South Africa / Barbara van Koppen, Barbara Schreiner, and Eiman Karar -- The role of information systems management in the management of water / Mark Dent -- The Water Research Commission / Jayant Bhagwan -- Transboundary water management issues under the NWA and regional collaboration, policies and conventions / Reginald Tekateka -- Lessons and conclusions / Barbara Schreiner and Rashid Hassan |
Summary |
One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, the introduction of the protection of environmental flows, and major shifts in charging for water use and in the provision of free basic water. Over ten years of implementation of these policy and legi |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Water-supply -- South Africa -- Management
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Water resources development -- South Africa.
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Water-supply -- Government policy -- South Africa
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Environnement.
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Climat.
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Water resources development
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Water-supply -- Government policy
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Water-supply -- Management
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South Africa
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Schreiner, Barbara
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Hassan, Rashid
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ISBN |
9789048193677 |
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9048193672 |
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