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WATER AND SANITATION SERVICES ON PRIVATELY OWNED LAND: POLICY GAZETTED
- 16 February 2024
- Water & Sanitation
- SA Legal Academy
A national policy on access to water and sanitation services by people living on privately owned land has been gazetted for implementation. It applies to land owned by any ‘single private individual, entity or group of individuals collectively’, including commercial farms, mine-owned land, church-owned land, privately owned enterprises, game parks, agricultural holdings, communal property associations and trust properties.
Noting that most of these properties are located ‘on the outskirts of urban settlements and outside the bounds of municipal service systems’, the policy:
- defines the department’s obligations in regulating and supporting service provision in such circumstances, and
- ‘establishes basic principles to be applied’ regarding:
- access to water-related infrastructure
- institutional arrangements
- funding mechanisms
- ‘internal and external co-ordination mechanisms’, and
- implementation responsibilities.
The policy was released in draft form In November 2022 for public comment.
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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