The age of commodity : water privatization in Southern Africa / David A McDonald and Greg Ruiters.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theorizing water privatization in Southern Africa / David A. McDonald and Greg Ruiters -- The new water architecture of SADC / Larry A. Swatuk -- The constitutional implications of commercializing water in South Africa / Sean Flynn and Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa -- Turning off the taps on the GATS / Karl Flecker and Tony Clarke -- Entrenching inequalities : the impact of corporatization on water injustices in Pretoria / Peter McInnis -- Managing the poor by remote control : Johannesburg's experiments with prepaid water meters / Ebrahim Harvey -- Public money, private failure : the limits of market-based solutions in water delivery in Nelspruit / Laila Smith, Amanda Gillett, Shauna Mottiar and Fiona White -- The political economy of public private contracts : urban water in two Eastern Cape towns / Greg Ruiters -- The murky waters of second wave neoliberalism : corporatization as a service delivery model in Cape Town / Laila Smith -- "Free water" as commodity : the paradoxes of Durban's water service transformations / Alex Loftus -- The rise and fall of water privatization in rural South Africa : a critical evaluation of the ANC's first term of office, 1994-1999 / Stephen Greenberg -- Stillborn in Harare : attempts to privatize water in a city in crisis / Rekopantse Mate -- "There is still no alternative" : fixing failed privatization with more privatization : the case of Lusaka / Karen Cocq -- Water privatization in Namibia : creating a new apartheid? / Labour Resource and Research Institute -- The new face of conditionalities : the World Bank and water privatization in Ghana / Rudolf Amenga-Etego and Sara Grusky.