Delineating river network quinary catchments for South Africa and allocating associated daily hydrological information
Nested hierarchical catchments are employed in a wide range of applications (e.g. water resource management, conservation planning, environmental impact or flow assessments, climate change or ...
Unifying weather and climate variability predictions – an operational seamless forecasting system for Southern Africa at time scales from days to seasons
This project was aimed at developing the seamless forecasting system, for predicting weather and climate at multiple time scales. In this regard, the defensible and actionable multi-decadal regional ...
Handbook on adaptive management strategies and options for the water sector in South Africa under climate change
South Africa is characterised by a highly variable climate added to an already stressed water situation and an imperfect governance system. It became clear that projected amplification of the effects ...
Resource guidelines for rainwater harvesting
The guidelines provide guidance on the design, installation of the catchment system and yield, and also how to select and size a storage tank taking into account different climatic zones and water ...
Water governance decentralization in Africa: a framework for reform process and performance analysis
Over the past 20 years most African countries reformed their water laws and restructured their institutional and governance framework accordingly. While much effort and good will was put into ...
Manual for the Rapid Ecological Reserve Determination of Inland Wetlands (Version 2.0)
The first step in the Water Resource Management cycle is the determination of a vision for the desired future state of the resource. This vision sets both the aspirations and constraints for the ...
Fisheries Management
Fishing vessels have traditionally been uncontrolled. However, with fish stocks declining around the globe, effective fisheries management has become essential if fish stocks are to regain some sort ...
Chemical control for reducing insect breeding
Pesticide free traps and attractant for surveillance and control of Aedes container breeding mosquitos are key to reducing insect breeding. This solution offers an inexpensive, biodegradable, easily ...
Habitat and environmental control to limit insect breeding
Mosquito larval habitat mapping using remote sensing and GIS for monitoring the filarial infection. By using satellite image digital data and GIS, maps for the temperature, salinity, turbidity and ...
Development of a revised desktop model for the determination of the ecological reserve for rivers
The previous version of the Reserve Desktop model was based on hydrology and regional parameters, which were largely based on seasonal distributions of stream flow. A recent development in EWR ...
Solutions
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