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Thursday March 12, 2009 18:57 by Coalition Against Water Privatisation - CAWP
City Of Cape Town ‘water Management Devices’ Are Nothing More Than Pre-paid Meters In Drag Helen Zille and the City of Cape Town need to stop trying to score cheap political/elections propaganda points and be honest with the people of Cape Town (see press statement of City of Cape Town below). The so-called ‘water management devices’ are simply pre-paid meters in drag. Like the pre-paid meters which have been declared unconstitutional and illegal by the Johannesburg High Court, these devices dispense the 6000 ‘free’ litres per month/per household and then automatically cut off. The additional amounts offered to those who sign up on the patronising and discriminatory indigency register is exactly the same option given to residents in Johannesburg with pre-paid meters. As our ongoing constitutional rights water case shows so clearly, the real issues are ones of lack of administrative justice, racial and class discrimination, lack of choice of water delivery mechanism (meters) and lack of access to sufficient quantities of free water (linked to the unaffordability of access to the minimum amount deemed necessary for basic human needs/dignity – i.e. 50 litres per person per day). |
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2: 10 000 litres to the poor is far more than a family of five needs.
So what's the problem??? This sounds like a great idea. And how is that patronising or discriminatory? - unless you consider providing free water to the poorest communities discrimination against the rich???