Transforming water management in South Africa : designing and implementing a new policy framework /

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Imprint:Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2011.
Description:1 online resource (xxviii, 278 p.)
Language:English
Series:Global issues in water policy ; v. 2
Global issues in water policy ; v.2.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8900317
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Other authors / contributors:Schreiner, Barbara.
Hassan, Rashid.
ISBN:9789048193677 (electronic bk.)
9048193672 (electronic bk.)
9789048193660
9048193664
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
Other form:Print version: Transforming water management in South Africa. Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2011 9789048193660