• Author:bennie
• Post date:24 October, 2013
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Climate,Economy and Society,Infrastructure,Integrated Water Resources Management,Policy, Legislation and Strategies,Surface Water Resources,Water Use

Overview The main objectives of this consultancy were to enlarge and improve the existing models for the Orange-Senqu Basin, so that they incorporated all of the essential components in the four Basin States and are accepted by each Basin State. These models must be capable of providing the current and likely future information needs of […]

Tags:adaptation to climate change, adaptive capacities, capacity building, climate change, evaluation, gauging networks, GIS, hydrological model, irrigation, IWRM, IWRMP, monitoring environmental flows, natural flow, present ecological state, rainfall. natural runoff, socio-economic, spatial data, water balance, Water Quality, water quality model, water quality monitoring, water resource model, yield

• Author:bennie
• Post date:24 October, 2013
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Surface Water Resources

Overview The Orange-Senqu River riparian States (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa) are committed to jointly addressing threats to the shared water resources of the Basin. This is reflected in bilateral and basin-wide agreements between the riparian states and led to the formation of the Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM) in 2000. The ‘Orange-Senqu Strategic Action […]

Tags:birds, Diatoms, eflows, EFR, estuary, fish, GIS, HEC-RAS, Lower Orange River, Macroinvertebrates, Macrophytes, maps, Namibia, Orange River Mouth, River Cross Sections Pitman Model, Sediment, shapefiles, Water Quality

• Author:bennie
• Post date:21 October, 2013
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems

Aquatic Invertebrates of South African Rivers – Illustrations (2002) Authors: A. Gerber, MJM Gabriel Source: Institute for Water Quality Studies, Source: Department of Water Affairs of South Africa

Tags:Aquatic invertebrates, South Africa

• Author:bennie
• Post date:11 October, 2013
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Climate,Economy and Society,Surface Water Resources,Uncategorized,Water Use

An interactive map has been compiled for various generic water resource information. View the main WIS map.

Tags:African, Agriculture, Average, Borders, Catchments Natural, Cities, dams, Data, Data Primary, DWA, Flow, Gauges Ecological, Major, map, Meteorlogical, mm, Orange, pa, Quaternary, Rainfall, Reservoir, Rivers, Runoff, Samples Irrigated, Secondary, Senqu, Sites, Stations, Tertiary, towns, transfers, Water Quality SA

• Author:bennie
• Post date:25 September, 2013
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Surface Water Resources

Overview The Joint Baseline Survey consisted of 3 separately funded studies undertaken for ORASECOM on the Orange-Senqu River Basin. The studies focussed on aquatic ecosystem health, environmental toxicity and the benchmarking of environmental laboratories. The 3 studies were as follow: Baseline monitoring of aquatic ecosystem health in the Orange-Senqu river basin (European Commission Funded) POPs, […]

Tags:aquatic, biota, ecological category, ecosystem, fish, habitat, habitat integrity, instream, invertebrates, monitoring, POPs, riparian vegetation, sediment toxicity, wild birds