'New' technology, old deal: Cape Town's drip syst...
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 health crisis. The approach is consistent with the city’s long history of punishing people who cann...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za