Resource Management

Dry river beds in southern Namibia.

Virtual Water considers every use of water needed to reach the final product.

Cash crops grown in South Africa and shipped to another country, is one way that virtual water is traded.

Water saving technologies in agriculture could result in large savings in the Orange-Senqu River basin overall.

Nuts are a high value crop, produced in increasingly large volumes in South Africa.

High grade Pecans.

An ephemeral stream during the dry season.

Sehlabathebe National Park – a park worth conserving.

Monitoring our resources so that they are used sustainably.

Groundwater is an important source of water in the basin, which is monitored by all four basin states.

Conductivity levels in the basin.

Sulphate levels in the basin.

Sampling activities during the first ORASECOM Joint Basin Water Resources Survey.

Monitoring response indicators is a good way of determining the overall health of an ecosystem.

Information systems allow data to be made easily accessible and transferable.

Stream-flow, as well as chemical and physical water attributes, are monitored for the entire basin and compiled in comprehensive information systems.

Data about water availability can influence water management scenarios, which in turn impact releases from dams such as Katse Dam.

A standard methodology for determining environmental flows is needed for the basin.