Abstract Debates over the management and allocation of water in the postcolonial era, and in post-apartheid South Africa in particular, reveal that struggles over water resources in Southern Africa occur within three broad frames: the institutional, the hydrological, and the ideological. Each of these realms reflects tensions in the relationship between power and principle that continue to mark the governance of water. Each perspective offers a way to understand the use and the limits of law in the management of a country's water resources. The existence of explicit principles, whether as policy guidelines, constitutional rights, or in the language of regional and international agreements, provides two important resources for those who struggle for access to water. First, a vision of a more just allocation of this fundamental resource and, second, an articulation of common benchmarks to which states and governments might be held to account.

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原则与权力之间：南非种族隔离后的水法原则与水治理

摘要 后殖民时代，尤其是后种族隔离时期的南非，关于水资源管理和分配的争论表明，南部非洲对水资源的争夺发生在三个广泛的框架内：制度、水文和意识形态。这些领域中的每一个都反映了权力与原则之间关系的紧张关系，这种关系继续标志着水的治理。每种观点都提供了一种了解国家水资源管理中法律的使用和限制的方法。明确原则的存在，无论是作为政策指导方针、宪法权利，还是以区域和国际协议的语言，为那些为获得水而奋斗的人提供了两个重要资源。第一的，