The Age of Commodity

Water Privatization in Southern Africa

By: Greg Ruiters, David A. McDonald (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 December 2004 | Edition Number 1

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As globalization and market liberalization march forward unabated the global commons continue to be commodified and privatized at a rapid pace. In this global process, the ownership, sale and supply of water is increasingly a flashpoint for debates and conflict over privatization, and nowhere is the debate more advanced or acute than in Southern Africa.

The Age of Commodity provides an overview of the debates over water in the region including a conceptual overview of water 'privatization', how it relates to human rights, macro-economic policy and GATS. The book then presents case studies of important water privatization initiatives in the region, drawing out crucial themes common to water privatization debates around the world including corruption, gender equity and donor conditionalities. This book is powerful and necessary reading in our new age of commodity.

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Introduction : from public to private (to public again?)	p. 1
Theorizing water privatization in Southern Africa	p. 13
The new water architecture of SADC	p. 43
The constitutional implications of commercializing water in South Africa	p. 59
Turning off the taps on the GATS	p. 77
Entrenching inequalities : the impact of corporatization on water injustices in Pretoria	p. 99
Managing the poor by remote control : Johannesburg's experiments with prepaid water meters	p. 120
Public money, private failure : testing the limits of market based solutions for water delivery in Nelspruit	p. 130
The political economy of public-private contracts : urban water in two eastern Cape Towns	p. 148
The murky waters of second wave neoliberalism : corporatization as a service delivery model in Cape Town	p. 168
'Free water' as commodity : the paradoxes of Durban's water service transformations	p. 189
The rise and fall of water privatization in rural South Africa : a critical evaluation of the ANC's first term of office, 1994-1999	p. 206
Stillborn in Harare : attempts to privatize water in a city in crisis	p. 225
'There is still no alternative' : the beginnings of water privatization in Lusaka	p. 240
Water privatization in Namibia : creating a new aparthied?	p. 258
The new face of conditionalities : the World Bank and water privatization in Ghana	p. 275
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