Tuli Karoo featured on AGRILINKS!

We are pleased to highlight and share two articles on the activities in the Tuli Karoo that are featured on the AGRILINKS platform. To read more on this content, please follow the links below. Achieving Sustainable Resource Use by Measuring What You Manage: Groundwater Monitoring in the Shared Tuli Karoo Aquifer…

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Project Brief: Enhancing water security in Southern Africa by tackling nitrate contamination of aquifers and unraveling links to climate change and sanitation: A case from Ramotswa, Botswana

The quality and quantity of groundwater are threatened by climate change as well as increasing demand from rapid urbanization in southeast Botswana, as is the case in much of southern Africa. A case study of Ramotswa, a growing peri-urban area in southeast Botswana (population about 40,000), revealed the impact of the 2013-2016 drought on groundwater quality. Water shutoffs by the public water supply scheme to ration and save water during the drought made flush toilets and the sewage treatment system inoperable.

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Malawi and Mozambique deliberate on the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis of the Shire River Aquifer System

Participants drawn mostly from government departments of Malawi and Mozambique converged at the Lotus Serendib Hotel in Blantyre for a two-day workshop hosted by the Southern African Development Community – Groundwater Management Institute SADC GMI and IWMI with the aim of presenting the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) of the Shire…

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