What's in a name? Looking back at the start of public water governance

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Water governance The Department of Irrigation (as it was then known) was established in 1912, two years after South Africa became a Union, to administer the newly promulgated Union Irrigation and Conservation of Waters Act (No 8 of 1912). Before the promulgation of this Act there were few large storage dams in South Africa. The Union government aimed to aid the growth and development, through storage schemes, of irrigated agriculture, which, together with mining, was the mainstay of its economy.

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