An understanding of the politics of the water sector during the first decade of South Africa's democracy requires an engagement with a series of parallel debates. There is a technical debate about the nature of the water supply challenge. There is an institutional politics around budget...

Despite widespread consensus on the importance of meeting the basic human rights of all people for safe water and adequate sanitation, the debate on the role of the private sector is loud, and at times destructive. In South Africa the gross inequalities inherited with the end of apartheid in...

The provision of public services involving network infrastructure must inevitably address the challenge posed by their inherent monopolies. However, much of current regulatory theory is founded on an additional paradigm in which private enterprise was expected to play a growing part in the...