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dam-l SA Skuifraam dam criticism/LS



>UNION CRITICISES DECISION TO BUILD DAM
>CAPE TOWN July 16 1999 Sapa
>The South African Municipal Workers Union has come out in support of several
>environmental groups opposing a decision to build a dam at Franschhoek to
>address rising water needs in Cape Town.
>Samwu spokesman Lance Veotte on Friday said there would be an increase in
>water tariffs as a result of the project that would hit the poor in Cape
>Town who battled to pay for water.
>Veotte said if water was in short supply in the city, restrictions should be
>imposed on the wealthy who used thousands of litres for their gardens and
>swimming pools.
>He said the only solution was to introduce a pricing system in which a
>lifeline amount of 50 litres was given to every person every day free of
>charge.
>"Any amount above this that is used should be charged according to a rising
>block tariff," Veotte said.
>On Thursday, the Environmental Monitoring Group, Earthlife Africa, the
>Society of South African Rivers and the Wildlife and Environment Society of
>South Africa, asked why water restrictions were not introduced if the supply
>situation was so poor.
>A spokeswoman for the group, Liane Greeff, asked why the city's daily 400
>million litres of treated sewage water was not used for golf courses and
>municipal gardens, instead of being pumped into the ocean.
>Local authorities in Durban and Hermanus had introduced a water demand and
>management programme, and in the case of Hermanus, the local authority had
>achieved a 30 percent reduction in peak water demands while the Durban metro
>had maintained water consumption at 1997 levels, Greeff said.
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>Liane Greeff
>Environmental Monitoring Group,
>PO Box 18977  Wynberg, South Africa, 7824
>E: liane@kingsley.co.za Tel: +27 +21 7610549/788 2473 Fax: 762 2238
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      Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
        and Editor, World Rivers Review
           International Rivers Network
              1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
                  Tel. (510) 848 1155   Fax (510) 848 1008
                        http://www.irn.org
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