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1 van Koppen, Barbara; Sally, Hilmy; Aliber, M.; Cousins, B.; Tapela, B.. 2009. Water resources management, rural redress and agrarian reform. Midrand, South Africa: Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Development Planning Division. 36p. (DBSA Working Paper Series 7)
Water resource management ; Water allocation ; Agrarian reform ; Land reform ; Poverty ; Households ; Rural development / South Africa
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http://www.dbsa.org/Research/DPD%20Working%20papers%20documents/DPD%20No%207.pdf
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2 van Koppen, Barbara; van der Zaag, P.; Tapela, B.; Manzungu, E. 2010. Roman water law in rural Africa: can it work? In Institute of Water and Sanitation Development (IWSD). 11th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, 27-29 October 2010. IWRM for national and regional integration: where science, policy and practice meet: water resource management. Harare, Zimbabwe: Institute of Water and Sanitation Development (IWSD). pp.226-261.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H043486)
http://www.waternetonline.ihe.nl/11thSymposium/WaterResourcesManagementFullPapers2010.pdf
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3 van Koppen, Barbara; van der Zaag, P.; Manzungu, E.; Tapela, B.; Mapedza, Everisto. 2011. Roman water law in rural Africa: dispossession, discrimination and weakening state regulation? Paper presented at the 13th IASC Biennial International Conference on Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, Hyderabad, India, 10 -14 January 2011. 30p.
Water management ; Water resources ; Water law ; Water rights ; Regulations ; Taxes ; Rural areas ; Water users ; Best practices ; Women ; River basins ; Models ; Government ; Corporate culture / Africa / South Africa / Ghana / Tanzania / Mexico / Mozambique / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H044593)
http://iasc2011.fes.org.in/papers/docs/1252/submission/original/1252.pdf
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The recent water law reforms in Africa, Latin America and elsewhere strengthen permit systems. This water rights regime is rooted in Roman water law. The European colonial powers introduced this law in their colonies, especially in Latin America and later also in Sub-Saharan Africa. By declaring most waters as being public waters, they vested ownership of water resources in their overseas kings. This dispossessed indigenous peoples from their prior claims to water, while the new formal water rights (or permits) were reserved for colonial allies. At independence, ownership of water resources shifted to the new governments but the nature of the water laws, including the formal cancellation of indigenous water rights regimes as one of the plural water rights regimes, remained uncontested. This colonial legacy remained equally hidden in the recent reforms strengthening permit system. Based on research on the new permit systems in a context of legal pluralism in Tanzania, Mexico, South Africa, Ghana, Mozambique and elsewhere, this paper addresses two dilemmas. The first is: how can the dispossession and discrimination be reverted by recognizing and even encouraging informal water self-supply since time immemorial to meet basic livelihood needs by millions of small-scale water users? The second dilemma, which prevails in SubSaharan Africa, but less in Latin America, is: can permit systems become effective regulatory tools to combat water over-use and pollution, collect revenue, and, where historical justice warrants, to re-allocate water from the haves to the have-nots, as South Africa’s water law aims? The paper provides evidence and best practices on, first, how the state can recognize legal pluralism and informal water rights regimes, and, second, how state regulation can only become effective through lean and targeted measures, so without nation-wide permits.
4 van Koppen, Barbara; Schreiner, B.; Burchi, S.; Cullis, J.; Denison, J.; Cardoso, P.; Gabriel, M. J.; Garduno, H.; Karar, E.; Moseki, C.; Tapela, B.; Rumble, O.; Salomon, M.; Stein, R. 2012. Comment to the draft general authorisation for the taking and storage of water, General notice 288 of 2012, by the Department of Water Affairs, South Africa, 4 June 2012. Pretoria, South Africa: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 8p.
Water management ; Water storage ; Water users ; Water use ; Regulations ; Water law ; Non governmental organizations ; Gender ; Public participation / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H045709)
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5 van Koppen, Barbara; Van der Zaag, P.; Manzungu, E.; Tapela, B.. 2014. Roman water law in rural Africa: the unfinished business of colonial dispossession. Water International, 39(1):49-62. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2013.863636]
Rural areas ; Water law ; Water resources ; Water management ; Legal aspects ; Colonialism ; Smallholders ; Income ; Gender / Africa South of Sahara
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046476)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02508060.2013.863636
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H046476.pdf
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This paper discusses four questions about the recent water law reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, which strengthen permit systems. First, do permit systems continue to dispossess rural small-scale users, as intended by European colonizers who introduced principles of Roman law? Second, is it wrong to assume that one can convert one legal system (customary water rights) into another legal system (permits) in the short term? Third, do current permit systems discriminate against small-scale users? And lastly, do fiscal measures ingrained in permits foster rent seeking and strengthen water resources as a commodity for nationals and foreigners who can pay? As all the answers are positive, the paper concludes by recommending measures to recognize and protect small-scale water users and render state regulation more realistic.
6 Makurira, H.; Mapani, B.; Mazvimavi, D.; Mul, Marloes; Tapela, B.; Wepener, V. 2014. Implementing water science research to benefit all. Editorial. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 67-69:1-3.
Hydrology ; Models ; Water resources ; Water management ; Water security ; Water scarcity ; Water supply ; Environmental aspects ; Sanitation
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H046485)
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7 van Koppen, Barbara; Tapela, B.; Mapedza, Everisto. 2015. Gender, rights, and the politics of productivity: the case of the Flag Boshielo Irrigation Scheme, South Africa. In Hellum, A.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; van Koppen, Barbara. (Eds.) Water is life: women’s human rights in national and local water governance in southern and eastern Africa. Harare, Zimbabwe: Weaver Press. pp.535-574.
Gender ; Men ; Women ; Human rights ; Political aspects ; Irrigation schemes ; Water rights ; Water resources ; Water management ; Domestic water ; Multiple use ; Food security ; Local government ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Labor ; Training ; Case studies / South Africa / Limpopo Province / Flag Boshielo Irrigation Scheme
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H047310)
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