South African water management areas could find themselves without enough water for its users due to new methods of performing water allocation as stipulated in the National Water Act of 1998. A water accounting system ...

In many of the rural areas of South Africa local communities rely on wetland resources for daily living. For a symbiotic relationship to exist between these communities and the wetlands, the wetlands must be utilised in a ...

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 ...

Many parts of southern Africa are considered water scarce regions. Therefore, sound management and decision making is important to achieve maximum usage with sustainability of the precious resource. Hydrological models are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hydrology is a multi-disciplinary science, and therefore derives data from diverse sources, with the data often of a spatio-temporal nature. A recent trend has been to combine these data with GIS, due to the data’s geographic ...

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 unresolved problem in hydrology has been to establish relationships between catchment attributes and the flow characteristics of the stream. Such information is commonly sought to improve streamflow predictions, often ...

Wetlands are considered sensitive eco-tones that provide numerous goods and services, not only to the communities which are immediately dependent upon them, but also to the many downstream stakeholders who benefit from ...