Water Sewage & Effluent quoted Adam Gunn in its
September 2008 issue in the article "A collective
effort".
The Legal And Environmental Issues
Adam Gunn, a director at Routledge Modise Eversheds, says this
is a "legally and environmentally" interesting issue. The
only environmental argument that could be raised is that the water
is being transferred from one catchment to another but the extent
to which the flow of water in South Africa has been changed seems
to mitigate this argument, he adds. "Legally, the issue is
also interesting because, since the introduction of the National
Water Act in 1998, all water in South Africa has been under the
control of the state." However, this piece of legislation has
not improved the quality of the water in South Africa's
aquifers hence private-sector initiatives seem to hold considerable
potential and solutions to complicated environmental-legacy issues.
Gunn believes there is also a possibility, should demand arise,
some of
