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28 Law Democracy & Dev. 1 (2024)

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      The potential

      influence of

        Sustainable

  Development Goal

    6.1   in  the South

  African legislative

           context

   MUHAMMAD SAMEER KASKER

 Lecturer, Department of Public Law and
 Jurisprudence, University of the Western
      Cape, Bellville, South Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4613-9991

            ABSTRACT
Water is at the very core of sustainable
development, as it is criticalfor a thriving
people and  planet. However, limited
water access has for long plagued many
parts of the world, South Africa included.
In  recent years, there  have been
increasingly urgent warnings of a global
water    crisis because   humanity
consistently uses more safe water than is
sustainably  available. From    an
international perspective, the most
recent development dealing with water
access, conservation and management is
Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6),
which forms part of the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development. SDG 6 covers
the entire water cycle, including the
management  of water, wastewater and
ecosystem resources, and places water at
the centre of sustainable development.
This critical goal can be achieved if it is


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