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The implementation of water demand management strategies in two South African case studies : Stellenbosch and Hermanus
Bibliography: pages 29-31.
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/22082 The implementation of water demand management strategies in two South African case studies : Stellenbosch and Hermanus Hester, Andrew Winter, Kevin Environmental and Geographical Science Bibliography: pages 29-31. Traditionally, an increase in water consumption and the corresponding decrease in the availability of water resources, has led to the development of new water augmentation schemes to store and transport water. Both in South Africa and internationally, dams, tunnels, reservoirs, inter-basin transfers, pipelines and weirs have offered effective but temporary solutions to an ever-increasing demand for water. However, as rivers, wetlands, waterways and canals start to show signs of collapse, emphasis is changing from the traditional water supply management to water demand management. Water demand management, which can be divided up into a number of related tools, looks at ways of using water more efficiently instead of exploring new sources of water. In this project, two water demand management case studies in South Africa were investigated and compared to international trends in water demand management. The ease studies were at the small towns of Hermanus and Stellenbosch both in the south western Cape. The Hermanus project consisted of 12 different water savings programmes, while the Stellenbosch project consisted entirely of a retrofitting programme. The Hermanus project has recently run to the end of its three-year duration, and has won numerous awards for the success it has achieved, while the Stellenbosch study took place four years ago and was on a smaller scale. Many aspects of the 12-point Hermanus programme were found to compare favourably with international WDM programmes and the project was well structured and run. However, some parts of the 12-point plan were not successful, and failed for various reasons. The Hermanus project received large amounts of support from various levels of governance, and questions remain whether the project would have been this successful without this support. The sustainability of this project has come under the spotlight in recent months. The Stellenbosch study was less successful than the Hermanus, but served to highlight the importance of some of the WDM tools and the combination of different tools in a water demand management programme. Stellenbosch has recently introduced a comprehensive Water Master Plan. It was concluded that the expertise and potential exists in South African to implement successful water demand management programmes, however the sustainability of the South African water demand management initiatives should be investigated. 2016-10-03T13:59:00Z 2016-10-03T13:59:00Z 2000 Master Thesis Masters MSc http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22082 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
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| title | The implementation of water demand management strategies in two South African case studies : Stellenbosch and Hermanus |
| title_full | The implementation of water demand management strategies in two South African case studies : Stellenbosch and Hermanus |
| title_fullStr | The implementation of water demand management strategies in two South African case studies : Stellenbosch and Hermanus |
| title_full_unstemmed | The implementation of water demand management strategies in two South African case studies : Stellenbosch and Hermanus |
| title_short | The implementation of water demand management strategies in two South African case studies : Stellenbosch and Hermanus |
| title_sort | implementation of water demand management strategies in two south african case studies stellenbosch and hermanus |
| topic | Environmental and Geographical Science |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22082 |
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