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What has become very clear is that the economic and political relations between the developers and their civil society opponents are highly unequal.

City of CT’s drip system plan punishing the most vulnerable - UCT researcher 10 June 2021 3:44 PM Share This: CapeTalk host Lester Kiewit chats to UCT researcher Dr. Suraya Scheba about the City of Cape Towns new approach to domestic water metering. The City of CTs new water management approach has been slammed for being anti-poor The municipality plans to scrap water management device meters and will implement a new system to manage water usage in indigent households The plan includes th...

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...