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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Free basic water"”.
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The free basic water policy of South Africa : an evaluation of its implementation
… have very good service provision, with water piped directly into the home. A great number of Black and Coloured households, by contrast, have very low levels of service where family members have to walk to collect water from communal taps. To this day, there are households in South …
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'Free Basic Water' and cost recovery : impact on low-income households in Grabouw
… those disadvantaged by apartheid. In the area of water provision, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry implemented a policy of cost recovery to enable local government to become financially sustainable. However, as this policy allowed municipalities to cut off the water supply of consumers …
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Efficiency and equity : implementation of the free basic water provision in the Drakenstein and Stellenbosch municipalities
Includes bibliographical references.
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Unreliable water supplies and household coping strategies in peri-urban South Africa
… face severe challenges with the reliability of water supplies. These supplies are often characterised by intermittence, low pressure and poor water quality. Despite its contribution towards water-related illness and the significant coping burden it imposes on households, water supply reliability …
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An assessment of the social consequences of water management devices on the poor in Samora Machel, Cape Town
This study assesses the social consequences of water management devices in poor households in Samora Machel, a poor urban area characterised by high levels of unemployment and poverty. South Africa is currently faced with an increase in the roll out of water management technologies, mainly in poor …
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Equitable access to water at Alfred Duma Local Municipality
Water plays a crucial role in the life of the society, even though the factors such as pollution, population growth and poor allocation of resources has placed severe pressures on sufficient and equitable water supply. Equitable access to water is part of the Sustainable Development Goals where it …
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Exploring the relationship between the water-energy-food nexus and livelihoods at the local scale: a case study focussed on a low-income residential area in Velddrif, South Africa
The water-energy-food nexus (WEF nexus) has primarily been applied to addressing WEF security at large spatial scales in response to resource scarcity concerns. In contrast, WEF security at local levels, particularly amongst the poor, has received little attention. This thesis addresses this gap by …
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Local management of a global tension : cost recovery and social equity in urban water and sanitation provision in Durban, South Africa
Conventional wisdom in the water and sanitation sector holds that it is difficult to make simultaneous headway towards both cost recovery and serving the poor. The case of Durban, South Africa, is often held to be one of the few examples where significant progress towards both of these ends has …
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An education and training programme as a strategy to improve consumers knowledge and operation towards basic water utilization
… is known for nitrogenous pollution in their water. The inhabitants of Madibogo were identified as a vulnerable group and, therefore, Madibogo was chosen as a suitable area to conduct a multidisciplinary study. The findings from the previous studies conducted in the Madibogo area by the …
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Controlling Cape Town’s poor through water management devices: the case of Saxonsea, Atlantis
This study examined the impact of the City’s water management strategies, specifically the water management devices, on selected households in Saxonsea. The impact of cost recovery policies on poor households was interrogated in the light of government’s distributional and procedural equity in …