- Title
- ECOMAG Model: an evaluation for use in South Africa
- Creator
- Mokoena, M P, Kapangaziwiri, E, Kahinda, J M, Hughes, Denis A
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438268
- Identifier
- vital:73447
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-4312-0408-3
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/TT%20555-13.pdf
- Description
- The complexity of current approaches to water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodi-versity and ecological functions and the supply of water services to people. It is a sad fact in southern Africa that water availability is highly variable both spatially and temporally with low runoff coefficients of less than 9% conversion of mean annual precipitation (MAP) to mean annual runoff (MAR) known to be prevalent across large parts of the region (FAO, 2003). With predictions of water scarcity conditions, caused by rapid population growth, expanding urbanisation, increased economic development and climate change, (Rosegrant and Perez, 1997), water looks set to become a limiting resource in Southern Africa. The dynamics of demand and supply will have a large impact on the future socio-economic development of the region (Basson et al., 1997).
- Format
- 58 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Mokoena, M.P., Kapangaziwiri, E., Kahinda, J.M. and Hughes, D.A., 2013. ECOMAG Model: an evaluation for use in South Africa. South Africa, WRC Report No. TT, 555, p.13
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Water Research Commission Terms and Conditions of Use Statement (https://www.gov.za/terms-and-conditions-use-0)
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