lesotho: accusations over highlands water project

The Transformation Resource Centre (TRC), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) monitoring the environmental and social aspects of the massive Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), came under heavy fire from the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) recently during a formal inquiry into the complaints leveled against the Project by the resettled and affected communities. The LHDA officials at the inquiry threw verbal missiles at the TRC accusing it of creating deliberate confusion and misunderstanding about the LHWP's compensation policy in the minds of the communities affected by the project, which sells water to South Africa.