Transforming Water Management in South Africa

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.

• water economics
• water governance
• water law
• water management
• water policy

• 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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