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>WORKING FOR WATER PROJECT A SPECTACULAR SUCCESS: ASMAL
>CAPE TOWN August 26 1998 Sapa
>
> The Working for Water programme was one of the government's most
> spectacular success stories since democratic elections in 1994,
> Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Kader Asmal said on Wednesday.
>
> Speaking at the launch of the programme's 1997/98 annual report at
> Parliament, Asmal congratulated the programme's leaders, workers
> and administrators, and said the little they had spent on
> administration set a great example for the rest of the public
> service.
>
> The department of water affairs and forestry said in a statement
> on Wednesday that the Working for Water programme had grown to
> encompass far more than just the removal of invading alien plants
> from river banks and water catchments.
>
> Having started in October 1995 with a R25 million grant from the
> Reconstruction and Development Programme, the programme had grown
> to become one of the world's greatest conservation initiatives and
> now provided tens of thousands of job opportunities, it said.
>
> It had employed more than 42000 people in the past year, and
> cleared a total of 220884 hectares of invading alien plants.
>
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Lori Pottinger, Director, Southern Africa Program,
and Editor, World Rivers Review
International Rivers Network
1847 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94703, USA
Tel. (510) 848 1155 Fax (510) 848 1008
http://www.irn.org
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