David Takacs on South Africa’s Treatment of Water Rights

Published on Author Dave Owen

As it emerged from decades of legal apartheid, South Africa also embarked on an ambitious program of water-law reform. At its core were two ideas. The first was to treat an old legal concept—the public-trust doctrine—as a foundation for the emerging legal system. That meant treating water as a common resource, to be held by… Continue reading David Takacs on South Africa’s Treatment of Water Rights