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Title Transforming water management in South Africa : designing and implementing a new policy framework / Barbara Schreiner, Rashid Hassan, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 278 pages)
Series Global issues in water policy ; v. 2
Global issues in water policy ; v. 2.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Water-supply -- South Africa -- Management
Water resources development -- South Africa.
Water-supply -- Government policy -- South Africa
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Environnement.
Climat.
Water resources development
Water-supply -- Government policy
Water-supply -- Management
South Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Schreiner, Barbara
Hassan, Rashid
ISBN 9789048193677
9048193672