The age of commodity : water privatization in Southern Africa / edited by David A. McDonald and Greg Ruiters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McDonald, David A. (David Alexander)

Ruiters, Greg, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water utilities--Africa, Southern.

Water utilities.

Water-supply--Economic aspects--Africa, Southern.

Water-supply.

Privatization--Africa, Southern.

Privatization.

Water-supply--Economic aspects.

Southern Africa.

Physical Description:

xv, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005.

Summary:

* The most complete and rigorous examination of the core issues in global water privatization debates and conflicts

Contents:

Theorizing water privatization in Southern Africa / David A. McDonald and Greg Ruiters

The new water architecture of SADC / Larry A. Swatuk

The constitutional implications of commercializing water in South Africa / Sean Flynn and Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa

Turning off the taps on the GATS / Karl Flecker and Tony Clarke

Entrenching inequalities : the impact of corporatization on water injustices in Pretoria / Peter McInnis

Managing the poor by remote control : Johannesburg's experiments with prepaid water meters / Ebrahim Harvey

Public money, private failure : testing the limits of market based solutions for water delivery in Nelspruit / Laila Smith ... [et al.]

The political economy of public-private contracts : urban water in two Eastern Cape towns / Greg Ruiters

The murky waters of second wave neoliberalism : corporatization as a service delivery model in Cape Town / Laila Smith

'Free water' as commodity : the paradoxes of Durban's water service transformations / Alex Loftus

The rise and fall of water privatization in rural South Africa : a critical evaluation of the ANC's first term of office, 1994-1999 / Stephen Greenberg

Stillborn in Harare : attempts to privatize water in a city in crisis / Rekopantse Mate

'There is still no alternative' : the beginnings of water privatization in Lusaka / Karen Cocq

Water privatization in Namibia : creating a new apartheid? / Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI)

The new face of conditionalities : the World Bank and water privatization in Ghana / Rudolf Amenga-Etego and Sara Grusky.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1844071340

1844071359

OCLC:

56615908