Rural poor still have /less access/to water.(News)

BYLINE: NATASHA JOSEPH

THE only way for poor households to increase their share of water use in agriculture is to be given access to more land, a report compiled for agricultural rights NGO the Surplus People Project says.

The report, "Water user associations in the Olifants-Doorn Water Management Area", suggests that more than a decade since the promulgation of the National Water Act, the distribution of water in South Africa "remains unequal across class, race and gender".

Development consultant Gwendolyn Wellman, who |compiled the report on behalf of the Surplus People Project, said that farm dwellers and small-scale farmers in the Western Cape …