Water board Rand Water has attributed many reservoir infrastructures and pumping system failures to extended periods of load shedding, which has led to intermittent water outages for its 17 million customers across Gauteng and surrounding areas. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), in 20...
Diverse norovirus genotypes identified in sew- age-polluted river water in South Africa. Epidemiol Infect 2013: 141: 303-313.Mans J, Netshikweta R, Magwalivha M, Van Zyl WB, Taylor MB. Diverse norovirus genotypes identified in sewage-polluted river water in South Africa. Epidemiol Infect. ...
Urban areas include Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Patan of the Kathmandu Valley, which lies within the upper part of the watershed. The middle part of the watershed is a mixture of cultivation and forest, with the greater part covered with forest whilst, the lower part of the catchment in the ...
Areas with chronic water scarcity are particularly susceptible to water crises, where water supplies dwindle to critical levels. In 2018, residents ofCape Town,South Africa, were faced with the possibility of “Day Zero,” the day on which municipal taps would run dry, the first potential water...
We’ll look at two cases of groundwater pollution: nitrates in California’s agricultural areas and arsenic in Bangladesh. California: In a four-county area in the Tulare Lake Basin and in a portion of the Salinas Valley, 2.6 million residents rely on aquifers for their drinking water. This...
We studied the relationship between water clarity and the abundance and prey capture success of Pied Kingfishers (Ceryle rudis) and Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) in two polluted coastal waters of south-east Ghana—the Weija Lake and Densu Delta Ramsar Site. Methods On each wetland, data on...
This leads to experiences of water stress, scarcity and inequality of water services access in cities. This has fuelled not only studies at the city scale but also at the domestic level to investigate the household experience of water security in urban and peri-urban areas [51,56,57,58]. ...
The majority of this water infrastructure is located in the eastern and southern parts of the country, areas of intense agricultural production and major industrial activities such as metallurgy, coal mining and chemical production. Within the first three months of the conflict, it became clear that...
South Africa—a water-stressed country planning to extract UOG resources Fig. 1: Water-related features of South Africa’s Karoo Basin. Plan view map showing South Africa’s Karoo Basin, important study areas (the shale gas SEA study area and the Regional baseline groundwater monitoring network...
1600 tonnes in India, and 300 tonnes inSouth Africa(Refkin and Cray, 2013).Water pollutionis so acute that up to 70% of China’s rivers and lakes are seriously polluted (Morton, 2006;WWF, 2012). It may well be noted that China has some of most polluted rivers in the world including...