The situation in Southern Africa with regard to water scarcity is particularly acute. Southern Africa has historically been an area of extreme tension in the wake of post-colonial exploitation and the delineation of boundaries for countries that often defy ethnic differences. It is also a region ...
Water Resource Situation, Strategies and Allocation Regimes in South Africa This chapter provides background to the state of water resources in South Africa and how those resources have been strategically developed and managed and ... R Hassan - Springer Netherlands 被引量: 4发表: 2010年 Sustainabi...
Macro-micro feedback links of water management in South Africa : CGE analyses of selected policy regimes The pressure on an already stressed water situation in South Africa is predicted to increase significantly under climate change, plans for large industrial... R Hassan,J Thurlow - 《Policy Res...
"To address the situation, an incredible amount of work must be done on maintenance, storage capacity must be upgraded and increased, new dams must be built and ageing pipes must be re-laid. However, in the face of a lack of resources, the public sector needs to be looking to the priva...
The research aims to calculate WPI in the upper Bagmati river Basin of Nepal in order to analyse the real water situation in the project area. WPI was estimated using five key components through the consultation with wide range of stake holders, policy makers and scientists for resource, ...
It is based on a literature review and on data analysis, combined with the authors’ ample experience of the water situation in these regions. For this approach, quantitative and qualitative data were utilized and analyzed for the five regions investigated. Furthermore, several valuable, up-to-...
The director of Mexico City's water system says the region is facing an "unprecedented situation." Mar 6, 2024 Mexico City facing water shortage crisis Mexico City, one of the world's most populated cities, may be mere months away from running out of water. CBS News contributor Enrique Ace...
(2015) used the general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of water resources policies on the optimal allocation of water resources, rural domestic water use, and economy under a given economic scenario because of the severe water resources situation in South Africa, and found that the ...
(or evapotranspiration) is representative of a situation where water limits evaporation more than energy. Hence, soil moisture, and not radiation, is the principal control on latent heat flux, and a soil moisture decrease causes reduced evapotranspiration. A negative correlation suggests that soil ...
Historical Dam Levels for the Cape Town Region: 2012—Present The easiest way to see trends and how bad the situation is today is by looking at this graph of the dam levels over time. This makes it clear both how severe the situation is and how scary the current drop-off is. The red...