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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Cape Town drought"”.
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Questions of resilience in municipal finance response to a shock event: a case study of the Cape Town drought
… urban system is planned and managed. The City of Cape Town has accepted this principle of resilience as a key means of driving collective understanding and action within the urban system in a time of growing uncertainty. Cape Town recently experienced the worst natural disaster in the history of …
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Understanding multiple health risks for low-income communities in Cape Town: water stress, COVID-19, and climate change
Climatic hazards, such as flooding and drought, are expected to increase in frequency as a result of climate change. Growing evidence suggests that climate-induced water challenges will interact with health concerns, compounding pre-existing challenges for vulnerable populations in low-and …
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From drought to desalination: The case of Cape Town
The recent Cape Town drought and fear of a severe water crisis between 2015- 2018 was followed by a fast-tracked crisis management response. In line with a wider global trend, the City of Cape Town adopted a technology called ‘reverse osmosis desalination' into the water supply mix. This ‘water …
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Loss and damage from droughts: material and non-material impacts of water scarcity on women farmers in Gugulethu, Cape Town
… and non-material losses and damages from the Cape Town drought have been on a group of urban-poor women farmers. Then, this research uses a barriers and enablers to adaptation framework to understand how to reduce these losses and damages. This qualitative case-study investigates women …
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Risk Assessment tool for water reuse - University of Cape Town as a case study
The 2015 – 2018 Cape Town drought led to investigations into alternative water sources such as greywater, rainwater, and stormwater. To implement these alternative sources effectively, the associated risks must be understood. The World Health Organisation's Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment …
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Exploring impacts and effectiveness of the City of Cape Town’s interventions on household water use practices during the drought
… social practice. In 2017 and 2018, the City of Cape Town (CoCT) ramped up their price and non-price mechanisms to encourage people to save water in response to a severe drought. These mechanisms included water restrictions, increased water tariffs, and the Day Zero communication campaign. …
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Treating filtered final effluent from the Cape Flats Wastewater treatment plant with ozone and biologically activated carbon filtration to remove pathogens and organic micropollutants
… the Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) scheme of the Cape Flats Aquifer, one of the new bulk water schemes that originated out of the Cape Town drought peak during the period spanning between 2015–2017. It is an indirect potable reuse scheme that consists in injecting advanced treated final effluent …
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The Critique of Everyday Drought: A Feminist Decolonial Analysis of Hydro-Climate Policies in Cape Town, South Africa
… South. Drawing from the emblematic case of Cape Town, South Africa, this research demonstrates the ways in which finance-driven reforms aimed at making the urban water system more resilient to climate change are intensifying the exploitation of historically marginalized populations – in this …