• Sustainability of South Africa's 'water miracle' questioned African Eye News Service May 9, 1999 By Peter Wellman
• International Committee of the Red Cross has produced a number of documents as part of a forum series including:- FORUM: war and water An extract article, as an example is - Diminishing standards: How much water do people need? by Les Roberts 
• Water hyacinth is seen as a destructive menace, but a new book describes how it can be controlled and utilised with positive results for the environment and local communities.  A Practical Handbook of Uses for Water Hyacinth from Across the World
• Intention to establish an environmental sanitation clearing house web site - Participate in the setting up of this initiative
• A Knowledge Program on Water Policy for African Journalists See the Report
• Blue Gold An interesting Special Report on the privatization and globalization of water issued by the International Forum on Globalization Ten Principles
• The River Keepers' Handbook A well reasoned call for alternative approaches to river basin management in Southern Africa produced by the International Rivers Network See an extract
• PROGRAM ON THE LAKES OF EAST AFRICA  (PLEA) of the African Studies Center of Michigan State University in collaboration with the fisheries research institutes of Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. 
• Ministerial Declaration of The Hague on Water Security in the 21st Century Open Document Agreed to on Wednesday 22 March, 2000, In The Hague, The Netherlands
•  "Towards sustainable water resources management - A Strategic Approach".  The European Commission publishes comprehensive Guidelines for water resources development co-operation in English, French and Portuguese http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/sector/intro_en.htm
• Water Filter Candles  Made of both earthenware and concrete. "We hope that over time these will prove to be sustainable options in helping people in low income areas of the world to get safe drinking water. Please click on: http://www.geocities.com/ceramafrique/  " 
• The Human Right to Water Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security   Retrieve Document (pdf file)
• Visit the great new UNICEF Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation Site www.unicef.org/programme/wes
• Professor Kader Asmal wins the 2000 Stockholm Water Prize Details
• Mozambique The domino effect, a downstream perspective in water management in Southern Africa. See the full article (pdf file)
• In all the hype of the build up to the World Water Forum in The Hague, Professor Albert Write reflects a somber picture of the state of African water. See 14 March 2000 Reuters article 
• IMPLEMENTING THE SOUTH AFRICAN  NATIONAL WATER ACT - 1 The Development of a charge system for discharging waste into water resources -  Putting teeth into the Polluter Pays principle !
• IMPLEMENTING THE SOUTH AFRICAN  NATIONAL WATER ACT - 2 Resource Directed Measures for Protection of Water Resources - Determining the "Reserve" - Its one thing to develop new legislation and policy - its another thing to implement it!
• EHP "Webliography" on Decentralisation Visit an EHP site providing a number of documents of the subject of Decentralisation HERE
• THE NEED FOR A VISION FOR THE 21^st CENTURY The process of establishing a vision continues - visit the  World Water Vision page
• New Pacific Institute page on Climate Change launched Link

1999

• Southern African hearings for Communities Affected by Large Dams Executive Summary & Declaration: "Voice of Affected Communities"
• MPUMALANGA STATEMENT Financing of water services - Output of the 4th Country Level Collaboration Workshop in East and Southern Africa (ESA)
• VISION 21-Water for the People Thematic papers from the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council http://www.wsscc.org/vision21/docs/index.html
• Donor involvement in the water sector IN THE SADC REGION Prepared by: DR. ELIZABETH SODERSTROM, USAID/RCSA, A donor-by-donor listing including addresses and contacts - very useful Click HERE
• South Africa’s policy transition to sustainability: environmental and water law  An interesting article by Ralph Hamann (Click here)
• The International Water Law Project website has recently been created to provide information and links on international water law and policy and related topics.
• The Ministry of Water Resources, Sultanate of Oman opens a web page Visit here
•  Sustainability of South Africa's 'water miracle' questioned African Eye News Service By Peter Wellman Two articles indicating problems
•  Review recent publications by Miguel Solanes Water Law and the Dublin Principles, produced in association with the GWP; Water Markets and Groundwater, produced for a Seminar at the World Bank
•  Africa Water Resources Management Policy Conference Nairobi, Kenya  - May 26 - 28 May 1999 Participants move towards the establishment of an African Water Resources  Forum for the exchange of knowledge among African professionals and practitioners. Final conference statement (pdf file)

1996 - 1998

• A special section about the recent Community Water Supply and Sanitation Conference has been posted on the UNDP-World Bank Water and Sanitation Program website (http://www.wsp.org/English/)
• GESI, the Global Environmental Sanitation Initiative, a global activity of the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), has its own web site now. See the Links Page.
• BERLIN RECOMMENDATIONS on Transboundary Water Management - Berlin, 27-30 September 1998 - See the Documents Page
• Private Sector Participation in low cost water well drilling in Africa: A Research Project of Cranfield University Check it out
• New items added to the ELDIS Directory of Information Sources on Development of the Environment. Check it out!!
• PRESS RELEASE - November Consultation on water and sanitation called by African professionals
• Did you think that development funds have been whistled into the wind over the past 30 years?? - Read this and think again.
• South Africa edges closer to finalising its new National Water legislation. See DOCUMENTS
• ID21 The new Development Research reporting service on UK based water sector research. http://www.id21.org/ or http://www.ids.ac.uk/id21
• Global Environmental Sanitation Initiative(GESI) See Preliminary proposals for information exchange and dissemination
• Linking water scarcity and social resource scarcity to arrive at new indicators and concepts - a "must see". Introduction
• ON-PLOT SANITATION IN LOW-INCOME URBAN COMMUNITIES See DOCUMENTS
• South Africa's National Water Bill published (21 January 1998). Go to the DOCUMENTS page.
• Mekong River agreement between Cambodia, Lao People's Republic, Thailand and Viet Nam.Go to the DOCUMENTS page.
• Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council Press release on a global sanitation campaign. (3 Dec 97)
• "Assessment of Integrated Water Resources Management Activities in the Southern Africa Region" - A Preliminary Inventory is published by the Institute of Water and Sanitation Development, Zimbabwe (3 Dec 97)
• Draft ZIMBABWE Water Legislation Published 
• Have a look at the home page of the Southern African Development Community - the SADC page .
• Review the SADC Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems, and other documents on the DOCUMENTS page.
• Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses adopted by the UN General Assembly May 1997 - Full text
• Some countries voted against or abstained from voting for the Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses adopted by the UN General Assembly on 21 May 1997- see who and why.
• National Sanitation Policy available from South Africa. - Full text
• Report from the Africa Working Group of the Collaborative Council on Water Supply and Sanitation - the Africa Sector Review Report - Full text

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