Parched - the Cape Town drought story / Gisela Kaiser.
Kaiser, Gisela, author.
2021
QC929.28.S62 C36 2021
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Title
Parched - the Cape Town drought story / Gisela Kaiser.
Author
Kaiser, Gisela, author.
ISBN
9783030788896 (electronic bk.)
303078889X (electronic bk.)
9783030788889
3030788881
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78889-6
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-78889-6 doi
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QC929.28.S62 C36 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.34/92909687355
Summary
The book presents the history of water supply to Cape Town, leading up to the worst ever drought recorded, through political turmoil impacting on drought interventions and resulting in the adoption of an integrated water strategy. Regions reliant on water supply from rainfed dams have always been vulnerable to the impact of drought. This is exacerbated by the uncertainty of future rainfall, which is never guaranteed, and reliance is placed on modelling using historic data. While weather has always been variable, climate has been generally reliable. With anthropogenic activity causing changes in climate, the validity of modelling based on history is currently not fully trusted. Unless the storage capacity is sufficient to carry through numerous seasons of poor rainfall, even with water restrictions to match demand and supply in times of depleted rainfall, the risk of reservoirs running dry remains a threat.
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Chapter 1, Introduction
Chapter 2. Water Supply in Cape Town
Chapter 3. Reconciliation strategy
Chapter 4. Politics, trust and governance
Chapter 5. The Drought
Chapter 6. Reliance on rainfall, climate variability and climate change
Chapter 7. The Water Resilience Programme
Chapter 8. The New Water Programme
Chapter 9. NWP: Managing dam levels
Chapter 10. NWP: Managing Demand
Chapter 11. NWP: Augmentation
Chapter 12. Lessons learnt
Chapter 13. Conclusion.

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