Overview The main objectives of this consultancy were to undertake scenario analyses, economic, water requirement projection and ecological support studies Read more
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Support to Phase 3 of the ORASECOM Basin-wide Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) – Plan: Overview
Water Resources Quality Joint Basin Surveys (JBSs)
The second 5-yearly comprehensive Joint Basin Survey (JBS2) of the quality of the water resources of the Orange-Senqu River Basin was undertaken Read more
2014 Integrated Water Resources Management Plan (IWRMP) – Summary and Documents
Purpose: This article will provide an overview of the 2014 IWRMP and provide links to the actual documents Related WIS Read more
Irrigation Water Demand Management (WP6)
Objectives The overall objective of the work package was to attain an overall understanding of how better management practices could reduce Read more
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POPs, PAHs and elemental levels in sediment, fish and wild bird eggs in the Orange–Senqu River Basin
- Author:bennie
- Post date:14 November, 2013
- Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Surface Water Resources
Introduction Four southern African countries, Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia share the basin of the Orange-Senqu River and are Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC) on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Currently, the SC targets 21 chemicals and classes of chemicals. Previously, the research in the Orange-Senqu Basin on POPs concentrated on pesticide POPs such as DDT. Only recently […]
Read more- TAgs:fish, instream, monitoring, POPs, sediment toxicity, wild birds
Joint Baseline Survey
- 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, […]
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