South Africa: HIV/AIDS and water privatisation - the human Impact

“Water, gathered and stored since the beginning of time in layers of granite and rock, in the embrace of dams and the ribbons of rivers - will one day, unheralded, modestly, easily and simply flow out to every South African who turns a tap. That is my dream.” These were the words of poet Antjie Krog on the promulgation of South Africa’s post-apartheid national water policy in April 1997.