• Author:Rapule Pule
• Post date:8 June, 2022
• Categories:Surface Water Resources

Welcome to the first surface water quantity report of the Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM), for the hydrological year 2020-2021. For details, reports and data click here.

• TAgs:IWRM, monitoring

• Author:Bennie Haasbroek
• Post date:27 April, 2016
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Climate,Economy and Society,Infrastructure,Integrated Water Resources Management,Landcover and Use,Policy, Legislation and Strategies,Surface Water Resources,Water Use

Overview The main objectives of this consultancy were to undertake scenario analyses, economic, water requirement projection and ecological support studies to produce the 2014 Orange-Senqu Integrated Water Resources Management Plan (IWRMP). The Project included 5 work packages that are described below. Funding Organisation(s): GIZ   WP 4A: Economic Analysis of Water based on Water Accounting for the […]

• TAgs:adaptation to climate change, adaptive capacities, irrigation, IWRM, IWRMP, monitoring environmental flows, natural flow, Phase 3, present ecological state, rainfall. natural runoff, socio-economic, water balance, Water Quality, water quality model, water resource model, water resources planning model, WRPM, WRYM, yield

• Author:Bennie Haasbroek
• Post date:4 December, 2014
• Categories:Integrated Water Resources Management,Policy, Legislation and Strategies

Purpose: This article will provide an overview of the 2014 IWRMP and provide links to the actual documents Related WIS Articles: 2014 Integrated Water Resources Management Plan – Development and Supporting Studies Reports: ORASECOM, (2015) Integrated Water Resources Management Plan for the Orange-Senqu River Basin – Executive Summary, Report by GIZ for ORASECOM, ORASECOM Report […]

• TAgs:IWRM, IWRMP

• Author:Bennie Haasbroek
• Post date:27 January, 2014
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Climate,Economy and Society,Infrastructure,Integrated Water Resources Management,Landcover and Use,Policy, Legislation and Strategies,Surface Water Resources,Water Use

  Introduction This article outlines the aims and objectives of the basin-wide Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Plan development  as well as how the work would be carried out through a combination of consolidation of technical studies and stakeholder consultation. During the development of the IWRM Plan it is ensured that the key basic elements are […]

• TAgs:IWRM, IWRM Plan, IWRMP

• Author:Bennie Haasbroek
• Post date:11 December, 2013
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Groundwater Resources,Integrated Water Resources Management,Surface Water Resources

Overview and Purpose The main purpose of this transboundary diagnostic analysis (TDA) is to provide a scientific and technical basis for the identification and prioritisation of key issues concerning the degradation of aquatic ecosystems in the Orange–Senqu River basin. It is intended as a decision-support tool for the Orange–Senqu basin states and stakeholders to identify […]

• TAgs:IWRM

• Author:Bennie Haasbroek
• Post date:15 November, 2013
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Groundwater Resources,Integrated Water Resources Management,Surface Water Resources

Overview and Purpose In their meeting in 2005 the Ministers responsible for water in the riparian States of the Orange-Senqu River basin have recognised the need for formal guidance for communication and collaboration on transboundary environmental assessment in the context of the ORASECOM Agreement. Such guidance would, among with other provisions, enable active stakeholder participation […]

• TAgs:IWRM

• Author:Bennie Haasbroek
• Post date:15 November, 2013
• Categories:Biota and Ecosystems,Groundwater Resources,Integrated Water Resources Management,Landcover and Use,Policy, Legislation and Strategies,Surface Water Resources

Overview and Purpose The Orange-Senqu Strategic Action Programme (SAP) is a negotiated document that provides a basin-wide framework for the implementation of a prioritised set of national and joint transboundary actions and investments for addressing jointly agreed priority environmental concerns in the Orange-Senqu river basin. The SAP is endorsed at political (Ministerial) level and together […]

• TAgs:IWRM, NAP, SAP, Strategic Action Programme

• Author:Bennie Haasbroek
• 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