2012). This strategy further seeks to provide guidelines for managing water at provincial, regional or catchment levels in the defined water management areas (Meissner 2016). Table 1 summarises the policies and legislation of the water sector in South Africa post-1994. Table 1 Water legislation,...
Despite Iran’s longstanding reputation for sustainable water management, the country currently faces mounting water-related challenges caused by population growth, industrial development, urban sprawl, lifestyle changes, climate change, territorial conflicts, poor management, and insufficient public participatio...
Moghra region is one of the well-known “1.5 Million Acres Reclamation Projects” areas in the Western Desert. In this paper, a groundwater model was constructed and used to investigate the sustainable groundwater management scenarios in Moghra region taking into consideration impacts of the ...
As such, WPI reflects the status of water resources of the basin and thus, aids in the effective water management in the needy water stress zones. Lack of adequate and efficient water supplies, i.e., where “water poverty” is pre-dominant, any measures to reduce income poverty are ...
Majola (2013), Groundwater Vulnerability Map for South Africa, South African Journal of Geomatics, 2(2). National Water Commission (2010), National Water Initative Policy Guidelines for Water Planning and Management, edited,Musekiwa, C., Majola, K., 2013. Groundwater vulnerability map for South...
International Water Management Institute, Pretoria, South Africa Karen G. Villholth & Girma Yimer Ebrahim British Geological Survey, Lyell Centre, Edinburgh, UK Alan M. MacDonald Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA ...
While significant parts of the globe are already facing significant freshwater scarcity, the need for more freshwater is projected to increase in order to sustain the increasing global population and economic growth, and adapt to climate change. Current approaches for addressing this challenge, which ...
It also informs the calculation of physical losses and the implementation of consumption management. Access to the data related to the maintenance of the water system can be useful in the correct analysis of the conditions. The data of water flow entering the District Metered Areas or DMA's in...
In subject area:Earth and Planetary Sciences The SGMA defines “sustainable groundwater management” as: “The management and use of groundwater in a manner that can be maintained during the planning and implementation horizon without causing undesirable results,” defined as: ...
managementpractices and policies. Active involvement of stakeholders in the decision-making process, however, often only takes place in terms of protecting and ascertaining water use rights locally especially when crisis strikes (e.g., drought). A contrasting example is the Ganges River in South ...