Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management in South Africa

Koppen, Barbara van; Schreiner, Barbara; Karar, Eiman

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“…A wealth assessment survey conducted among 250 households by IWMI in 2017 found that 70% of the inhabitants live in houses made of cement bricks with roofing either made of tiles or corrugated iron. Moreover, 25% of the households participating in the survey owned a car [98].…”

Section: Techno-physical and Agro-ecological Environmentmentioning

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“…The case study scheme is one of 13 collective schemes that emerged in Tshakuma between 2004 and 2016. These schemes were built in response to the dwindling service provided by the public water scheme, originally constructed by the homeland government in 1990 [98], during the decade after the end of apartheid. In addition, the perimeter of the village had grown beyond the reach of the then existing public infrastructure.…”

Section: Tshakumamentioning

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Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons

Hofstetter,

Bolding,

Boelens

2023

Water

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Water schemes that rely on user (co-) ownership and collective action have been described in the irrigation sector for a long time. Still, interest in such forms of (co-) investment in the domestic/multiple use sector is more recent. To address the persisting issue of rural water service, (what has been coined) self-supply is proclaimed to be a (supposedly) low-cost, sustainable manner to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). User (co-) investments are to be promoted and realized through the creation of an enabling policy environment and development of, and training on, low-cost technologies through government and NGO support and private sector-steered access to such technologies. In this article, we apply the Rooted Water Collectives (RWC) framework to describe two such schemes, one in South Africa and one in Switzerland. The data collection followed an action research methodology, with the main author being involved in interventions in all three schemes. We show here that these collectives create positions of purpose within societies and that what motivates people is to help themselves and contribute to the greater good of the community. This article shows that interventions to foster and sustain such collective actions that follow a neoliberal/modernist imaginary negatively affect their viability since these collectives, through their other-than-capitalist interactions, form part of and depend on an alternative imaginary. We conclude that interventions aiming to strengthen forms of collective action can only succeed if they recognize contextuality, unequal power relationships, and grass-rooted forms of interdependence and collaboration, and actively build on and work toward such alternative, more convivial imaginaries.

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Section: Techno-physical and Agro-ecological Environmentmentioning

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Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons

Hofstetter,

Bolding,

Boelens

2023

Water

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“…Globally, 4.2 per cent of all deaths, the majority of 27 Fewtrell et al 2005;Waddington and Snilstveit 2009;Wolf et al 2014. 28 Das et al 2015Panda and Agarwala 2012;van Koppen et al 2010;Hartmann et al 2015;Khanna andDas 2015. 29 Das et al 2015;Panda and Agarwala 2012;van Koppen et al 2010;Hartmann et al 2015.…”

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“…28 Das et al 2015Panda and Agarwala 2012;van Koppen et al 2010;Hartmann et al 2015;Khanna andDas 2015. 29 Das et al 2015;Panda and Agarwala 2012;van Koppen et al 2010;Hartmann et al 2015. 30 Das et al 2015Hartmann et al 2015.…”

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Towards Gender Equality Through Sanitation Access

Ray¹,

Burt²,

Nelson³

2016

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“…A public water supply scheme which abstracts water from a dam and provides household connections was constructed by the former Venda homeland government and finalised in 1990 (van Koppen, 2017a). While this scheme still provides water services to some sections of the village, in others, the services have permanently broken down.…”

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Community, markets, and conviviality: a political ecology of rural water supply

Hofstetter

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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 "Look at the world through watery eyes" 1.2 Research questions 1.3 Conceptualisation 1.4 Positionality and the tale of my research odyssey 1.5 Research methodology 1.6 The regional context of the case studies 1.7 Scientific output 1.8 Outline of the dissertation Chapter 2 The emergence of collectively owned self-supply water supply systems in rural South Africa -what can we learn from the Tshakhuma case in Limpopo? 2.1 Introduction: South Africa's water services challenge 2.2 Background: The international interest in self-supply 2.3 Self-supply and the role of communities in water service delivery in South Africa 2.4 Conceptual notes 2.5 Methods 2.6 Results 2.7 Discussion and conclusionChapter 3 Addressing failed water infrastructure delivery through increased accountability and end-user agency: the case of the sekhukhune district, South Africa 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Conceptual take on failed service delivery 3.3 Methodology 3.4 Scrutinising four phases of service delivery to identify mechanisms that cause failure 3.5 Transformative servicing -the pilot project in ga-moela 3.6 Discussion: counter-mechanisms increasing accountability and improving service delivery 3.7 Conclusion Chapter 4 Conviviality under pressure of market-modernist expertocracy: the case of water commons in rural Switzerland 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Conviviality and the commons 4.3 The historical development of community owned water schemes 4.4 The four phases of a project establishing water access 4.5 The unification of three schemes 4.6 Conclusion: conviviality and the threats of market-modernist forces Chapter 5 Rooted water collectives in a modernist and neoliberal imaginary: threats and perspectives for rural water commons 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Analytical and conceptual framework 5.3 Methodology 5.4 Context of the three case study areas 5.5 Results: the three rooted water collectives 5.6 Discussion 5.7 Conclusion Chapter 6 Discussion and conclusion 6.1 A critical look at my conceptual journey 6.2 Reflection on rural water supply collectives 6.3 Future research 6.4 Reflection on positionality 6.5 Conclusion Chapter 7 Summary Chapter 8 Acknowledgments Chapter 9 Bibliography Chapter 10 NotesLocal context: Entlebuch the case is situated in a rural municipality located in the mountainous region of Entlebuch, within the Kanton of Luzern. Outside the urbanised zone of the village, there are six independent and user owned water schemes that abstract water from natural springs and deliver it to connected households. While the yield of these springs is not directly subject to temporary changes in weather, many are sensitive to longer dry spells as occurred in 2018 and 2020. The rainfall, despite climate change, is predicted to remain at around 1400mm (Kanton Luzern, 2022), but summer droughts and heavy rainfall events are expected to become more frequent (Regierungsrat des Kantons Luzern, 2021). The high protection status of the remaining natural springs means that collectives aiming to improve their water supply in most cases h...

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Mainstreaming Gender in Water Management in South Africa

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Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons

Rooted Water Collectives in a Modernist and Neoliberal Imaginary: Threats and Perspectives for Rural Water Commons

Towards Gender Equality Through Sanitation Access

Community, markets, and conviviality: a political ecology of rural water supply

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