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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Water management area"”.
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Extreme rainfall events over the Pongola-Mtamvuna Water Management Area of South Africa
… socio-economic impacts. The Pongola-Mtamvuna Water Management Area (PM) located over north-eastern South Africa consists of communities that depend on rain-fed agriculture, as well as an inter-linked ecosystem and fresh water bodies that are dependent on rainfall. Extreme rainfall events and …
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Development of a land use-based spatial water requirements model for the Berg Water Management Area
… for the spatial modelling of current and future water demand in the Berg River Water Management Area in the Western Cape of South Africa in order to produce a prototype model from which annual water requirements could be computed and spatially visualised. To accomplish this the spatial …
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Estimating the marginal value of agricultural irrigation water: A methodology and empirical application to the Berg River Catchment
… facilitate effective and efficient intersectoral water allocation policy in South Africa, where limited water supplies are increasingly constraining necessary economic development. The study develops an economic model of irrigated agricultural production that recognises the multi-output nature of …
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Assessment of co-occurrence of cyanotoxins, toxic metals and anionic surfactants in irrigation water, agricultural soils and food crops
… the occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater ecosystems has become a concern. Cyanobacteria produces secondary metabolites, known as cyanotoxins that cause acute and chronic poisoning in animals and humans. History of mining, industrial activities and poor maintenance of wastewater …
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A political policy analysis of the integrated water resource management approach in South Africa’s water policy (1998 – 2001)
… question: Is the incorporation of the integrated water resource management (IWRM) approach in South Africa’s water policy, from a political point of view, appropriate? The IWRM approach, as applied to developing countries, originated in developed countries with predominantly homogeneous societies …