Faeza Meyer News Today

The National Water and Services Amendment Bill prioritises stricter regulations and fines, yet millions lack access to clean, running water.

6.30pm Weds 22 Nov | Shabna Begum, Eleni Karagiannaki, Faeza Meyer, Vimal Ranchhod | Registration Required | Free public event at LSE

Lesley Green is a Professor of Anthropology and the director of Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town. The City of Cape Town seems to have finally realised — after 15 years of grassroots organising against the dreaded water management device (WMD) — that the system needs to go. However, the proposal merely offers fresh strategies in the form of “new” technological instruments that will deprive people of adequate supplies of water — and does so amid a public hea...