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Building on earlier experiences with private sector participation since 1994, a five-year management contract for water services in Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city and the country's economic and financial hub, was awarded in 2000 to the Joint Venture Water and Sanitation Services South Africa (WSSA). The Johannesburg management ...
The Department of Water and Sanitation is one of the departments of the South African government.It is responsible for the state of water and sanitation in South Africa.. In May 2009, following the election of Jacob Zuma, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry was divided, with the forestry responsibility being transferred to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
Pages in category "Water supply and sanitation in South Africa" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In January 2001, the city of Johannesburg established the municipal company Johannesburg Water and subsequently signed a management contract with Water and Sanitation Services South Africa (WSSA), a joint venture between Suez (ex-Lyonnaise des Eaux), its subsidiary Northumbrian Water Group and the South African company Group 5. The contract was ...
A group of people gathering around a communal tap in Johannesburg, South Africa. In South Africa, the right to water is enshrined in the constitution and implemented by ordinary statutes. This is evidence of a slight modification of the second technique of constitutionalisation referred to as the "subsidiary legislation model".
The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam ...
The minister of water and sanitation is a minister in the Cabinet of South Africa.The minister has political responsibility for the Department of Water and Sanitation.The office in its current form was re-established in August 2021; it formerly existed between May 2014 and May 2019.
Sanitation syndrome is a way of describing a trend in segregationist thought in South Africa.The theory of sanitation syndrome was first advanced by Maynard Swanson in his frequently-cited 1977 paper, "The Sanitation Syndrome: Bubonic Plague and Urban Native Policy in the Cape Colony, 1900-1909". [1]