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Factors influencing sustainability of communally-managed waterfacilities in rural areas of Zimbabwe
(Elsevier, 2017)
Sustainability of point water facilities is a major development challenge in many rural settings ofdeveloping countries not sparing those in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. This study was done inZimbabwe to investigate the ...
Towards an ethnography of climate change variability: Perceptions and coping mechanisms of women and men from Lambani village, Limpopo province
(SAGE, 2017)
Attention to gender and equity has lagged behind
in climate change research, programming, national
policy-making and in the international negotiations.
Studies on climate change and gender links with
climate change ...
New insights in the evaluation of reserves of selected wells of the Pletmos Basin offshore South Africa
(One Petro, 2016)
The area evaluated has similar structural styles and settings as the producing neighboring fields of F-A and E-M in the adjacent Bredasdorp basin Offshore South Africa. The main objective of this study is to create a ...
Book review: urban geology
(Springer Verlag, 2012)
Will climate warming exceed lethal photosynthetic temperature thresholds of lichens in a southern African arid region?
(Wiley, 2013)
Predicted elevated temperatures and a shift from a winter to summer rainfall pattern associated with global warming could result in the exposure of hydrated lichens during summer to more numerous temperature extremes that ...
Application of the rainfall infiltration breakthrough (RIB) model for groundwater recharge estimation in west coastal South Africa
(Water Research Commission, 2013)
Recharge estimation in arid and semi-arid areas is very challenging. The chloride mass balance method applied in western
South Africa fails to provide reliable recharge estimates near coastal areas. A relationship between ...
Emerging forms of social action in urban domestic water supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2013)
This paper compares and contrasts emerging forms of social action in urban domestic water supply in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Both countries represent transitional societies that are facing challenges of providing clean ...
Assessment of microbial contamination of groundwater in upper Limphasa River catchment, located in a rural area of northern Malawi
(Water Research Commission, 2012)
In rural Africa, scientific evidence is often lacking to guide the scaling-up of groundwater as the safest source of potable water. An investigation was conducted in the Upper Limphasa Catchment in northern Malawi to ...
The role of ground water in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Although water resources managers speak of a water crisis in Africa, the management of ground water has to
date not featured strongly in national and regional African water agendas. Examination of the physical environment
of ...