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Access to water in South Africa: Constitutional perspectives from a developing country

Ympäristöjuridiikka 1/2009 s. 70–106
15.4.2009
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The South African government, already in 1997, recognized that providing access to safe and clean water to satisfy the basic needs of the majority of the country’s population,

would pose some of the most profound challenges. Given the socio-economic aspects associated with access to water, this right has gradually found its way into the more general constitutional and socio-economic rights discourse.

Against this background, this article briefly sets out the South African legal framework currently regulating access to water; critically reflects on the consequences or legal effect of these provisions; and critically analyses how the South African judiciary has attempted to interpret these provisions and their concomitant obligations.

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