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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"municipal water supply"”.
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Municipal water supply governance in Ontario: neoliberalization, utility restructuring, and infrastructure management
… sustainability, and the governance of municipal services in the province of Ontario, Canada. Two issues are studied: the restructuring of business models, and programs for sustainable infrastructure management (focusing on programs for the reduction of water consumption and production). …
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Innovations in municipal service delivery : the case of Vietnam's Haiphong Water Supply Company
This thesis describes a state owned municipal water supply service company, the Haiphong Water Supply Company (HPWSCo), that improved its service delivery and successfully transformed itself into a profit making utility with metered consumers willing to pay for improved service. The thesis examines …
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Impacts of water provision on Alfred Duma Local Municipality, KZN, South Africa
The study aimed to explore water provision's impacts on rural areas of Alfred Duma Local Municipality. Rural areas under the jurisdiction of Alfred Duma Local Municipality are provided by the uThukela District Municipality with water via taps installed in their yards. The study was conducted in …
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Questions of resilience in municipal finance response to a shock event: a case study of the Cape Town drought
… drought. The impact of this drought on the municipal budget has been formidable. In terms of expenditure, considerable adjustments to the planned expenditure had to be made in order to source the funds required for large-scale infrastructure projects designed to increase resilience within …
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Sustainable water governance: An incremental approach towards a decentralised, hybrid water system
… that the Western Cape has always been a water scarce region, it is this current drought that has brought home the area’s inherent vulnerability and highlighted the governance issues. The world wherein South Africa’s water governance was created is very different to the world we find …
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Advancing Microbial Desalination Cell towards Practical Applications
Conventional desalination plant, municipal water supply and wastewater treatment system are among the most electricity-intensive facilities. Microbial Desalination Cell (MDC) has emerged as a promising technique to capture the chemical energy stored in wastewater directly for desalination, which …
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Spatial planning strategies for sustainable municipal household water service provision: a case study of Thohoyandou Town in Vhembe District Municipality of Limpopo, South Africa
… significant challenges when it comes to reliable municipal water supply. The root causes often lie in aging or inadequate infrastructure, the pressures of rapid town expansion, and ongoing governance issues that hinder effective service delivery. This study focuses on how spatial planning can play …
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City waterworks
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Determination of metal concentrations in vegetation, soil, dust, and water in the vicinity of a cement factory in North West province, South Africa
… concentrations in vegetation, soil , dust and water samples near a cement manufacturing pl ant in the North West Province. Thirty-one samples at various distances from approximately 500m to 2700m from where the cement factory is situated, were collected. In addition, similar samples (except for …
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The assessment of water supply system efficiency and water quality in Standerton, Lekwa Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Most municipalities in South Africa face significant challenges in managing their water treatment plants effectively, often due to a lack of technical expertise, insufficient staffing and poor maintenance planning. These result in poor water quality, frequent supply interruptions and failure to …
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Potential groundwater contamination from pit latrines in Ga-Maja and Reefentse
… excreta removal in low-income countries. Groundwater is a critical water resource in many peri-urban areas where there is no municipal water supply. Groundwater resources are commonly vulnerable to pollution from on-site sanitation practises, which may degrade their quality. Because groundwater …
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Brackish Groundwater Desalination: A Decision Support Tool
The purpose of this study is to provide water utility decision makers like city managers, water company managers, city council members, etc. with key questions to consider prior to choosing whether to embark on a brackish groundwater desalination program for their utility. The scholarly literature …
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Barriers and Enablers of Water Conservation in Formal Residential Households in Cape Town, South Africa
… population must share increasing scarcity of water, exacerbated by climate change. Thus, climate change and urbanization has contributed to the emergence of more water-stressed cities. This thesis is concerned with water conservation as a method of adaptation to an urban water crisis. It looks …
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An evaluation of the water and sanitation programme as implemented through the Mvula Trust by the Limpopo Department of Education
The study evaluates the water and sanitation programme as implemented through The Mvula Trust by the Limpopo Department of Education (LDoE) in terms of the agency agreement between the two parties, thereby providing: • A precedent of public services and infrastructure delivery through co-production …
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The Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on the 2015-2017 Hydrological Drought in the South-Western Cape, South Africa
… event since 1904 and caused severe unprecedented water shortages throughout the Western Cape region, with many municipal water supply systems close to failure by the first quarter of 2018; most especially the Western Cape Water Supply System that serves Cape Town. The drought gained a lot of …
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Strategic Environmental Assessment for Municipal Water Demand Based on Climate Change
Accurate urban water demand forecasting plays a key role in the planning and design of municipal water supply infrastructure. The reliable prediction of water demand is challenging for water companies, specifically when considering the implications of climate change (Zubaidi et al., 2018). Several …
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Substituting Residential Rainwater Harvesting and Greywater Reuse for Public Water Supply: Tools for Evaluating the Public Cost
… the cost of an alternative on-site residential water supply using rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse in their jurisdiction. These tools are then applied to the city of San Luis Obispo (SLO), California as a case study to demonstrate how rainwater harvesting and greywater reuse could be …
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Evaluating residential satisfaction with an innovative dual water supply system in water sensitive urban development
The Australian water industry is facing two major challenges: a rise in water demand due to a growing population and a decrease in rainfall availability due to a drying climate. This situation has triggered a re-evaluation of traditional water schemes and promoted consideration of alternatives for …