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 ...
Mobile Water Management
Mobile Water Management (MWM) is the only monitoring method registering water levels, groundwater levels, gate openings and water quality tests by simply taking a picture with a mobile device. ...
Improving Productivity and Environmental Performance of Aquaculture
Fish—including finfish and shellfish—are an important item in the human food basket, contributing 17 per cent of the global animal-based protein supply in 2010. They are an especially valuable food ...
Protecting Fish Habitat
Preserving fish habitat is often just a matter of proper planning and following a few simple rules as you carry out projects along your shoreline ...
Water Quality and Agriculture: Meeting the Policy Challenge
The key challenges for policy makers in addressing water quality issues in agriculture are to reduce farm contaminant lost into water systems while encourage agriculture to generate or conserve a ...
Groundwater allocation (river based organisations)
The OECD recently released a report Groundwater Allocation: Managing Growing Pressures on Quantity and Quality that analyses how the distinctive features of groundwater (as compared to surface water) ...
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 ...
Hydrologic
To provide water stakeholders with reliable information, simulation models, in-depth water knowledge and tools for solving water problems. ...
Water and Soil Analysis
Eijkelkamp Soil & Water makes a difference worldwide by developing, producing and delivering solutions for soil and water projects. ...
Akvo Flow, Caddisfly and Lumen
Akvo is a not-for-profit foundation that creates open source, internet and mobile software and sensors. We work with people improving infrastructure and services, for disadvantaged populations. ...
Tahmo weather stations
Tahmo aims to develop a vast network of weather stations across Africa. Current and historic weather data is important for agricultural, climate monitoring, and many hydro-meteorological applications. ...
Deltares Flood Early Warning System (FEWS)
Deltares is an independent institute for applied research in the field of water and subsurface with five areas of expertise. ...
Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (EARS)
EARS Earth Environment Monitoring is a remote sensing consultancy based in The Netherlands. We use satellite data for crop index insurance, yield forecasting, river basin management, and drought ...
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 ...
Solutions
Do you have a solution that matches one of the identified water-related needs of African stakeholders? Please submit it to the AfriAlliance Solutions Hub here.