The UN’s Human Right to Water in the Context of New Water Governance Regimes in South Africa and Tanzania

Sahle, Eunice N.; Galvin, Mary E.; Pierce, Benjamin; Todd, Kara

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“…With the coming to power of the ANC as the first democratically elected government in the 1990s, there were explicit promises made related to basic service delivery as a component of redress for past injustices of colonial and apartheid periods. The focus on equitable service delivery and redress was affirmed by the 1996 constitution-which includes the goals of equitable service delivery (for water, electricity, and sanitation), as key symbolic and material means to realize a more equitable and democratic South Africa (Sahle et al, 2019). Constitutional language (1996) asserts that -everyone has the right to access sufficient food and water" (Section 27b).…”

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“…As others have emphasized, quantitative and qualitative approaches can usefully be brought together to uncover and understand complex socio-spatial inequities and aspects of lived experience, including to better understand underlying processes (cf. Kwan, 2009; Sheppard, 2001). Here, the statistical results validate linkages held up in the literature.…”

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Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa

Harris

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This paper analyzes water services in relation to trust in government, with insights for broader state–society relations. The work is based on a multi-year and multi-sited case study of underserved areas of Cape Town, South Africa and Accra, Ghana. The analysis reveals that water quality and satisfaction are statistically linked to trust in government in South Africa, but not in Ghana. As well, while indicators of water access and quality appear to be very good in South Africa, there is nonetheless deep contestation and ongoing dis-enfranchisement. For Ghana, water access and quality are important for people’s daily lives, but are less strongly connected to senses of governmental responsibility—although for both countries there is a strong sense that government should be “doing more.” Features of history and context are emphasized in the Discussion and Conclusion sections to understand key differences between the sites and other results.

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Section: Conclusion: Key Considerations: Linking Back and Moving Forwardmentioning

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Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa

Harris

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…In terms of possible advocacy emanating from within the water sector, the commitment of activists from the Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) was evident in their driving of the Mazibuko case all the way to the Consitutional Court (Bond and Dugard, 2008;Sahle et al, 2019). However the APF has subsequently folded and there is no sign of a group with the interest and capacity to take up the issue of adequate provision of water for PLHIV.…”

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“…Full cost recovery is one manifestation of a neoliberal economic approach, which undermines poor people's universal human right to water and the right to access to water specified in the South African Constitution. (McDonald and Ruiters, 2005;Bond and Dugard, 2008;Bakker, 2010;Sahle et al, 2019) Few local practitioners question that cost keeps many PLHIV from accessing the quantity of water needed. For instance, Potter and Clacherty (2007, p. 4) argue that:…”

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Failed intentions? Meeting the water needs of people living with HIV in South Africa

Galvin

Masombuka

2020

WSA

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Researchers, activists, practitioners and policy-makers have grappled with the challenge of providing people living with HIV (PLHIV) with an adequate amount of safe water. Comprising 13% of the overall population of South Africa in 2018, 7.52 million PLHIV need water for drinking and taking medication; preparing food; and personal hygiene and cleaning to minimise infections. This article examines the responses of the different stakeholders to this challenge and their impact on the water and health policy process. It finds that activists were able to emphasise the dimensions of the challenge; practitioners worked to implement provision more effectively within existing policy frameworks; and a range of stakeholders made a thoughtful and promising policy proposal for direct action, which the Department of Water and Sanitation ultimately failed to embrace. This article is based on an extensive review of academic research and publications by development agencies on HIV and water as well as engagement with policies and documents in the South African water sector related to water services delivery for PLHIV. While the widespread provision of antiretrovirals from 2004 has changed the context, the above findings are significant in understanding and reviewing the impact of various stakeholders on the water and health policy process. They raise questions regarding the effectiveness of NGO advocacy, the means of delivering improved services to specific populations, and the ability of a range of stakeholders to inform the policy approaches of government departments.

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Environmental Rights

Babeck

2024

Writing Constitutions

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The UN’s Human Right to Water in the Context of New Water Governance Regimes in South Africa and Tanzania

Cited by 3 publications

References 27 publications

Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa

Assessing states: Water service delivery and evolving state–society relations in Accra, Ghana and Cape Town, South Africa

Failed intentions? Meeting the water needs of people living with HIV in South Africa

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