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Progressive Deterioration of Water Quality Within South Africa
This chapter focusses on discussing the continued water degradation within South Africa. The primary water quality challenges, as discussed in Chap....
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South Africa’s Impending Freshwater Crises
Freshwater availability across South Africa varies on a spatial and temporal scale, creating various water-related challenges. The country is...
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Sustainable Management of Water Resources in a Semi-arid River Basin Under Climate Change: A Case Study in South Africa
Rapid population increase, industrialization, and pollution are putting a strain on available and diminishing freshwater resources. The main aim of...
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Assessing the Drinking Water Quality Indexes of Borehole and Surface Water Close to a Mining Dump in Welkom, South Africa
Groundwater is an important source of drinking water in most parts of Southern Africa where access to tap water is limited. In most cases,...
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Continued Decay of South Africa’s Basic Water and Sanitation Infrastructure and Service Delivery
South Africa has focussed upon providing water access and services to its population since 1996. The focus of only providing new water access has led...
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Water Challenges in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa
Improved water access, supply and hygiene is one of the priorities defined in the sustainable development goals to be realized by 2030. However,...
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Monitoring of Emerging Contaminants in Selected Wastewater Treatment Works Around Bloemfontein, South Africa: Initiative for Environmental Protection
The study monitored the occurrence of emerging contaminants such as acetaminophen, carbamazepine, ibuprofen, triclosan, atrazine, metolachlor,...
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Water Challenges in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa
The focus of this chapter was to explore the challenges that prevent rural sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from realizing universal water access. Findings...
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Introduction to Water Resources of Sub-Saharan Africa
This chapter explored the sources of water used by sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for drinking and ways in which users access it. The total amount of...
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Management of Water Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
This chapter focused on the management measures that can be applied to reverse the water issues of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region. Findings showed...
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The State of Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Role of International Cooperation for Small Hydropower Development
Africa is one of the continents globally with a large energy potential to be developed, particularly small hydropower resources. Hitherto, it is the...
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South Africa’s Impending Water Crises: Transforming Water Crises into Opportunities and the Way Forward
This chapter focusses on providing a suitable discussion of water security from a global perspective, highlighting the various primary themes which...
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Recommendations to Improve Management of Water Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
In this chapter, recommendations to improve water management in sub-Saharan Africa towards universal access to the commodity were discussed. This was...
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Traditional Methods of Agricultural Water Resource Management in Southern Africa
Africa is vulnerable to climate change impacts because of drought extremes, flooding, and overdependence on rainfed agriculture. Smallholder farming...
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Progress Towards Attaining SDG Target on Universal Access to Clean Water in Sub-Saharan Africa
This chapter focused on assessing the progress towards realization of sustainable development goal (SDG) 6 on universal access to safe water in...
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Indigenous Approaches to Domestic Water Catchment Management and Conservation in Southern Africa
Many Southern African countries suffer from chronic freshwater shortages for domestic use, and the readily accessible water resources are heavily...
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BRICS Countries: Sustainable Water Resource Management and Pollution Control Challenges and Opportunities
This book provides a detailed study and assessment of water resources management and
pollution control in different BRICS countries. The regions...
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Rainfall-Runoff Modelling in the Kouilou-Niari Catchment Area in South-West of Congo-Brazzaville
Located in the south-west of the Republic of Congo, and endowed with important agricultural and industrial activities, the Kouilou-Niari catchment...
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Status of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in the States of North East India: A Review
Occurrences of geogenicGeogenic arsenicArsenic pollution have been reported from countries of Asia, the US, South America, Africa, and the European...
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Fragmented Water Governance, Institutional Problems and Questionable Decisions
Despite natural limitations of water supply, lack of financing and institutional problems all being important factors, poor governance is often the...