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Parched - the Cape Town drought story

Kaiser, Gisela.

Parched - the Cape Town drought story

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Parched - the Cape Town drought storyby Gisela Kaiser.
Author:	Kaiser, Gisela.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
Description:	xxix, 290 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	DroughtsSouth Africa
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78889-6
ISBN:	9783030788896$q(electronic bk.)

Parched - the Cape Town drought story
Kaiser, Gisela.

Parched - the Cape Town drought story[electronic resource] /by Gisela Kaiser. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - xxix, 290 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9783030788896$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-78889-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

908588
Droughts
--South Africa

LC Class. No.: QC929.28.S62 / C36 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 363.3492909687355

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