Browsing Masters Degrees (Environmental Hydrology) by Title
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A framework to improve irrigation design and operating strategies in the South African sugarcane industry.
(2009)The purpose of this study was to develop a framework to assess irrigation design and operating strategies. This objective was achieved successfully and the framework was applied to formulate guidelines to increase farm ... -
A simulation study of cane transport system improvements in the Sezela Mill area.
(2009)The South African sugar industry is of significant local and international importance and covers an area in excess of 450 000 hectares. This area yields approximately 21 million tons of sugarcane per annum which is transported ... -
An adaptation of the SCS-ACRU hydrograph generating technique for application in Eritrea.
(2004)Many techniques have been developed over the years in first world countries for the estimation of flood hydrographs from small catchments for application in design, management and operations of water related issues. However, ... -
An adaptive operational water resources management framework for the Crocodile River catchment, South Africa.
(2014)River catchments are complex STEEP (Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political) systems requiring an integrated and adaptive approach to their water resources management with input from diverse stakeholders ... -
Agroclimatic response mapping for sugarcane production in southern Africa.
(2008)As is the case in many other regions in the world, sugarcane production in southern Africa is affected by a wide range of climatic conditions, which can vary considerably from location to location and from year to year. ... -
An integrated sugarcane supply chain model : development and demonstration.
(2006)The South African sugar industry is a large industry which relies on expensive capital equipment to harvest, transport and process sugarcane. An average of 23 million tons of sugarcane are annually supplied to 14 mills ... -
An analysis of baseflow recession in the Republic of South Africa.
(1997)Demands on the water resources of South Africa are ever increasing owing to population growth and increased development of urban, peri-urban and rural communities. Problems in terms of water quantity and quality are ... -
Approaches to modelling catchment-scale forest hydrology.
(2002)South African commercial plantations occupy an estimated 1.5 million hectares of the country and as the demands for timber products increase, this area is expected to increase. However, further expansion is limited, not ... -
Assessing the performance of regional flood frequency analysis methods in South Africa.
(2015)In engineering and flood hydrology, the estimation of a design flood refers to procedures whereby the magnitude of a flood is associated with a level of risk at a given site (Pegram and Parak, 2004). The use of a Regional ... -
An assessment of satellite derived total evaporation data as a data source to the ACRU hydrological model.
(2015-06-09)Hydrological models and tools are often used as decision support systems to inform water resources management. The successful application of these systems is largely dependent on the quality of data being incorporated into ... -
An assessment of scale issues related to the configuration of the ACRU model for design flood estimation
(2010)There is a frequent need for estimates of design floods by hydrologists and engineers for the design of hydraulic structures. There are various techniques for estimating these design floods which are dependent largely on ... -
An assessment of shallow water tables and the development of appropriate drainage design criteria for sugarcane in Pongola, South Africa.
(2013-11-05)South Africa, in common with all countries with arid or semi-arid climatic conditions, is facing the consequences of irrigation development without effective subsurface drainage. The quality of irrigation water is also ... -
Comparison between satellite-based and cosmic ray probe soil moisture estimates : a case study in the Cathedral Peak catchment.
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Conceptualisations and applications of eco-hydrological indicators under conditions of climate change.
(2009)Anthropogenically-induced climate change has the potential to have serious implications on aquatic ecosystems and may ultimately affect the supply and quality of freshwater lakes and rivers throughout the world. As a class ... -
Deep row trenching of pit latrine and waste water treatment works sludge : water and nutrient fluxes in forest plantations.
(2013-11-19)The deep row trenching of ventilated improved pit-latrine (VIP) and waste water treatment works (WWTW) sludge is a unique alternative cost effective land application method that will prevent odour and health problems and ... -
Defining small catchment runoff responses using hillslope hydrological process observations.
(2000)The Umzimvubu catchment on the eastern coastal escarpment of South Africa is sensitive to anthropogenic influences,with commercial and subsistence agriculture, irrigation, domestic and rural settlements and forestry ... -
Definition of soil water dynamics by combining hydrometry and geophysics in a hillslope transect in the KNP.
(2006)The budgeting of water fluxes in the soil is an extremely complex problem, and is compounded by subsurface controls and environmental forces which modify the soil water dynamics. Of the controlling factors, the underlying ... -
A description, quantification and characterization of hillslope hydrological processes in the Weatherley catchment, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
(2014-05-29)Advances in hillslope hydrology have been numerous in the past two decades. However many of these advances have been highly site specific in nature, without identifying any means of linking processes across different ... -
The design and testing of soil pressure sensors for in-field agricultural and forestry traffic.
(2005)River stage or flow rates are required for the design and evaluation of hydraulic structures. Most river reaches are ungauged and a methodology is needed to estimate the stages, or rates of flow, at specific locations in ... -
Design of a brush cutter blade and its integration into a semi mechanized sugarcane harvesting system.
(2007)Sugarcane is an important crop for South Africa. It provides employment and valuable foreign