Browsing by Subject "Water"
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Correction: sibanda et al. application of drone technologies in surface water resources monitoring and assessment: a systematic review of progress, challenges, and opportunities in the global south. drones 2021, 5, 84
(Drones, 2022)In the original publication [1], “Fahad Alawadi. Detection of surface algal blooms using the newly developed algorithm surface algal bloom index (SABI)”, “Proc. SPIE 7825, Remote Sensing of the Ocean, Sea Ice, and Large ... -
Dynamic changes and sensitivity of water area of Huixiankarst wetland
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2020)Affected by human activities and natural factors, the area of the Huixian karst wetland has been shrinking in recent years. As the main data source, Landsat5 TM remote sensing image was used to analyze the trend of wetland ... -
From vagueness to precision: raising the volume on social issues for the water sector
(IWA Publishing, 2013)The paper raises the volume on complex social issues that affect water management. The paper proposes Amartya Sen's capability approach (CA) as a suitable framework against which to consider these complex ideals. This ... -
Hatching conflicts: rout reproduction, properties of water, and property ownership in South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group [Commercial Publisher] Routledge [Imprint], 2023)Trout were introduced to South Africa in the late nineteenth century with colonial fanfare, but since the 1990s, post-apartheid legislation has declared trout alien and sought to reduce their numbers. Both the initial ... -
Realising the right of access to water: pipe dream or watershed?
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)The article assesses the implications of the Grootboom judgment on the right of access to water. The free basic water policy intends six free kilolitres of water per household per month to be funded from the equitable share ... -
Remote sensing for water resources and environmental management
(MDPI, 2023)In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, the main goal of the Special Issue on “Remote sensing for water resources and environmental management” was to solicit papers from a diverse range of ... -
A review of combined advanced oxidation technologies for the removal of organic pollutants from water
(Springer Verlag, 2014)Water pollution through natural and anthropogenic activities has become a global problem causing short-and long-term impact on human and ecosystems. Substantial quantity of individual or mixtures of organic pollutants enter ... -
Water delivery: public or private?
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2006)The landscape within which human rights are protected and realised has changed dramatically in the last few decades. One of the main driving forces for this change is economic globalisation and the weakening of ... -
Water for agrarian reform and rural poverty eradication: Where is the leak?
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2010)The distribution of water use is undoubtedly the sharpest inequality inherited from the past in South Africa, with a Gini Coefficient of 0.96 and higher. Unfortunately, as the review in this paper suggests, the gap is even ... -
Water futures and solutions: Options to enhance water security in sub-Saharan Africa
(Springer, Cham, 2018)Water security is one of the greatest health, ecological, environmental, and human rights challenges of our time. Africa sits at the epicenter of this quandary, with the need to build resilience into already over allocated ... -
Water materialities and citizen engagement: Testing the implications of water access and quality for community engagement in Ghana and South Africa
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)We analyze the relationship between perceptions of domestic water access, and quality, in relation community engagement. While others have suggested linkages between material conditions of water access and engagement ...