The age of commodity
Subtitle: water privatization in Southern Africa
By: edited by David A. McDonald and Greg Ruiters.
Contributors: McDonald, David A.; Ruiters, Greg, 1959-
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Water utilities -- Africa, Southern.; Water-supply -- Economic aspects -- Africa, Southern.; Privatization -- Africa, Southern.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing water privatization in Southern Africa / David A. McDonald and Greg Ruiters; title: The new water architecture of SADC / Larry A. Swatuk; title: The constitutional implications of commercializing water in South Africa / Sean Flynn and Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa; title: Turning off the taps on the GATS / Karl Flecker and Tony Clarke; title: Entrenching inequalities : the impact of corporatization on water injustices in Pretoria / Peter McInnis Resolution on water and trade adopted August 2003 / South African Water Caucus (SAWC); title: Managing the poor by remote control : Johannesburg's experiments with prepaid water meters / Ebrahim Harvey; title: Resolution on prepaid meters / South African Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu); title: Public money, private failure : testing the limits of market based solutions for water delivery in Nelspruit / Laila Smith ... [et al.]; title: The political economy of public-private contracts : urban water in two Eastern Cape towns / Greg Ruiters; title: Declaration of the Coalition Against Water Privatisation (South Africa); title: The Phiri water wars / Trevor Ngwame; title: The murky waters of second wave neoliberalism : corporatization as a service delivery model in Cape Town / Laila Smith; title: 'Free water' as commodity : the paradoxes of Durban's water service transformations / Alex Loftus; title: 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; title: Stillborn in Harare : attempts to privatize water in a city in crisis / Rekopantse Mate; title: 'There is still no alternative' : the beginnings of water privatization in Lusaka / Karen Cocq; title: Water privatization in Namibia : creating a new apartheid? / Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRI); title: Draft manifesto against water privatisation in Namibia [abbreviated]; title: The new face of conditionalities : the World Bank and water privatization in Ghana / Rudolf Amenga-Etego and Sara Grusky; title: The Accra Declaration on the right to water / [Ghana National Coalition against the privatization of water [abbreviated].