Discussed in this policy brief are the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) draft norms and standards, the DWS draft national pricing strategy, citizen monitoring of the National Water Resources Strategy 2 (NWRS2), Catchment Management Forums, the Minister's Budget Speech, amongst other things.
This is an update on policy processes and other recent developments in the water sector - available HERE.
In October 2016 EMG, in partnership with the South African Water Caucus, the Water Research Commission, UBC's Program on Water Governance and Rhodes University's ELRC, hosted a multi-stakeholder symposium on water governance. This was an opportunity to share lessons from the 'Citizen Monitoring of the NWRS2' project, and to talk about what water governance should truly look like in a participatory democracy.
You can read the proceedings here
In 2015 - 2016, members of the South African Water Caucus embarked on 'The Changing Practice' course, offered by the Environmental Learning Research Centre at Rhodes University. The project was coordinated by EMG, with funding from the WRC, and the course was intended to boost SAWC member's capacity to monitor the NWRS2. The participants were grouped according to provincial water caucuses, in three provinces - Mpumalanga, Western Cape and Gauteng (the Vaal). Each group worked on a collaborative change project which they wrote up as a case study. Below are the participants final case study booklets.
Are you confused about Cape Town’s drought or terrified at the prospect of running out of water? Perhaps, like us, you’ve been frantically reading all the articles desperately trying to make sense of the contradictory statements, looking for someone to blame (at least momentarily) but more importantly trying to find out what you can do so that there’s still water to flush your toilet in mid-2018. Maybe you’re living in Grahamstown or somewhere in Limpopo with the same fears but none of the news. And then perhaps you take a step back and wonder what will happen when it rains again and the dams fill up – who will pay for the expensive desalination plants? But will it rain again? Will the dams ever fill up?
These few pages are to help you through the chaos, to bring some order to the disorder : Read our guide