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Barbara van KoppenIWMI
“Water flows towards Money and power” Equity in access to water resources
Priority General Authorisations and Water Allocation
Reform in South Africa
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Vision: protecting and expanding HDIs’Schedule 1 and “5-10x” Schedule 1 water usesfor jobs, poverty alleviation & rural development
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Priority 3: The third highest priority is accorded to the allocation of water for poverty eradication, the improvement of livelihoods of the poor and the marginalized, and uses that will contribute to greater racial and gender equity.
: The national target is 30% water in the hands of South African black and
women citizens
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So what? Do we now get water from the haves, especially in stressed basins? Can
we now get a loan? Can we sell?
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Licensing discriminates !
70-90% of water resources used by 10% of the largest registered users
Current licensing processes are often costly, very lengthy,
bureaucratic and inaccessible to many South Africans
The passage of a law that commits us as government to perform tasks that we
do not have the resources to undertake is time
wasting of the worst kind (Asmal 1997)
~ 25 ha
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• Are GAs just an ‘administrative rest-category’ (Hodgson 2004)? Enforcement? Loans? Sale?
So:• Link to priority in NWRS2• Inform and empower people• Mobilize banks• Use it or lose it• Monitor uptake and impact
General Authorisations (GA) may be gazetted for specific catchments for the allocation of water resources to black and women users. This will facilitate the uptake of water by these designated groups to ensure the set race and gender targets.
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Conclusion: pro-poor licensing: Regulate the few large-scale users
Support the majority of small-scale users