- ‘The Water We Need’: Household Water Mapping as Ecofeminist Education and Research for the Water Commons
By Anna James, Faeza Meyer and Ebrahiem Fourie. Basic services are a critical nexus point for the realisation of sustainable cities. In South Africa, the failure to realise adequate and equitable basic services cements apartheid and colonial power relations, reproducing violent inequalities and relations of unsustainability. Water inequality has a disproportionate impact on women, who … - EMPTY PROMISES: The struggle for equitable access to water in South Africa
PARI has released a new report exploring the promises and realities of the Human Right to Water and access to water for all in South Africa. Read the full report compiled by Tracy Ledger, Mahlatse Rampedi and Ntokozo Ndhlovu here. - AWCC Launches New Water Mapping Toolkit
Making Connections Between our Households and the Water Commons Do you know how much water your household uses daily? Do you know who is responsible for the water your household gets? Do you have the water that you need? How does your water use affect other parts of your life such as health, work, education…?… … - Feminist organizing for water justice in Africa: Popular Education Toolkit
Urgent Action Fund – Africa has released a ‘Feminist organizing for water justice in Africa – Popular Education Toolkit’, with contributions from the AWCC and comrade organizations. “This is a toolkit with activities designed to facilitate a popular education process for and with activists who are fighting for water justice in Africa. With popular education …Feminist organizing for water justice in Africa: Popular Education Toolkit Read More »
- The Hydro-Colonial Water Cycle in South Africa
The African Water Commons Collective has released an illustration of the Hydro-Colonial Water Cycle that accurately maps South Africa’s water realities. There is nothing natural, normal, neutral or inevitable about water distribution and relationships to water in Cape Town and South Africa.