A legal battle is looming relating to a Constantia man who has been selling water - by the truckload - from a mountain stream.
Angry residents say they have complained to various authorities for more than a year about Paul Baise selling mountain water from his Rhodes Drive home in Constantia, but have drawn a blank.Kevin McGivern, one of Baise’s neighbours, said during the height of the drought, trucks had started arriving at 07:00, and continued coming throughout the day.
He said the amount he sold in a year was less than two million litres, but was not able to put a figure to it.The story starts in the 1950s. Three properties abutting the mountain on Rhodes Drive in Constantia, including the property where Baise now lives, were granted permission by the then Department of Water Affairs and Forestry to use water from the mountain stream behind their properties for their household use.
Chieppa believes Baise"is doing a good service to the community" by selling the water, which would otherwise"just go to waste".Saleh Abrahams, the partner of one of Baise’s neighbours, said the authorities needed to tell the public what the rules were. The Constantia water issue had given rise to three court challenges. In addition to SANParks acting against Baise, Baise has charged SANParks with malicious damage to property, as SANParks officials allegedly cut his water pipes running from the stream.A third court case involves Baise and his neighbour McGivern. Baise has been charged with assault, after he allegedly tried to throttle McGivern during an argument about receivers that opened the gate shared by the three properties.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
GoslingMelanie Good for him
GoslingMelanie This is law.The National Dept of Water Affairs is the legal entity to all water resources. It also empowers its inspectors to issue fines/take someone to court /farmers/people using unlawful means to capture water......
Why is it deemed wrong to sell NATURAL water? Okanye kukho indawo endingayibambiyo?
GoslingMelanie This guy is opening himself up to so much liability.
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