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Transforming Water Management in South Africa

Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

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Editors:
  1. Barbara Schreiner

    1. Pegasys Strategy and Development, Rietfontein, Pretoria, South Africa

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  2. Rashid Hassan

    1. in Africa, University of Pretoria, Centre for Environmental Economics and P, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

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  • Features new essays and case studies from South Africa on the challenges and success of implementing wide reaching water reform
  • Provides stimulating text that will engage decision-makers, professionals, researchers and students in the practical challenges of water policy reform and implementation
  • Contains graphs and diagrams to convey key ideas

Part of the book series: Global Issues in Water Policy (GLOB, volume 2)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. The Political, Social and Economic Context of Changing Water Policy in South Africa Post-1994

    • Barbara van Koppen, Barbara Schreiner, Saliem Fakir
    Pages 1-17

  3. Water Resource Situation, Strategies and Allocation Regimes in South Africa

    • Johan van Rooyen, Marna de Lange, Rashid Hassan
    Pages 19-32

  4. Water Services in South Africa 1994–2009

    • Kathy Eales
    Pages 33-71

  5. Water, Sanitation and Wastewater Management: Some Questions for National Water Security in South Africa

    • Kathy Eales
    Pages 73-96

  6. Transforming Legal Access to Water to Redress Social Inequity and Economic Inefficiency

    • Gavin Quibell, Robyn Stein, Ashwin Seetal, Noxolo Ncapayi
    Pages 97-118

  7. Protecting Aquatic Ecosystem Health for Sustainable Use

    • Harrison Pienaar, Antonia Belcher, Dana F. Grobler
    Pages 119-144

  8. Catchment Management Agencies: A Case Study of Institutional Reform in South Africa

    • Eiman Karar, Gugu Mazibuko, Thomas Gyedu-Ababio, Derek Weston
    Pages 145-163

  9. National Water Security: Planning and Implementation

    • Chris Moseki, Toriso Tlou, Cornelius Ruiters
    Pages 165-180

  10. Pricing of Water for Cost Recovery, Economic Efficiency and Social Equity

    • Mahomed Vawda, Nicola King, Mike Muller
    Pages 181-201

  11. Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management in South Africa

    • Barbara van Koppen, Barbara Schreiner, Eiman Karar
    Pages 203-214

  12. The Role of Information Systems Management in the Management of Water

    • Mark Dent
    Pages 215-235

  13. The Water Research Commission

    • Jayant Bhagwan
    Pages 237-251

  14. Transboundary Water Management Issues Under the NWA and Regional Collaboration, Policies and Conventions

    • Reginald Tekateka
    Pages 253-270

  15. Lessons and Conclusions

    • Barbara Schreiner, Rashid Hassan
    Pages 271-276

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 277-278
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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 legislative changes mean that valu­able lessons have already been learned and useful experiences gained in the challenge of effective water resources management and water services provision in a middle income country.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Pegasys Strategy and Development, Rietfontein, Pretoria, South Africa

    Barbara Schreiner

  • in Africa, University of Pretoria, Centre for Environmental Economics and P, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

    Rashid Hassan

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