The ‘long now’ of southern African water: exploring aspects of enchantment and disenchantment in Brandfort
Abstract
Strategies aimed at understanding contemporary South African water supply and sanitation problems require a broad view of factors such as migration, urbanisation and climate change. Working from a case study of the water supply of the town of Brandfort in the Free State Province of South Africa, attention is given to its contemporary water crisis; the origins of the town in the nineteenth century; a view of the deep time of the region; and suggestions for gaining understanding of the town's contemporary social ecological history in terms of the dynamics of its local water supplies.
Collections
- Faculty of Humanities [2042]
- TD: 2015 Volume 11 No 2 [10]