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ClimSA: Training Workshop for the SADC Region on the WEFE NEXUS, Climate Variability, and Environmental Monitoring

Jun 10, 2024

Start date

Jun 10, 2024 - 07:00

End date

Jun 14, 2024 - 10:30

BACKGROUNDThe Intra-ACP Climate Services and related Application (ClimSA) Programme takes place within the framework of an existing Financing Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific group of States Secretariat (ACP Secretariat) and the European Union (EU). The goal ...

SDD (Small dams index)

Dataset Manager

Jul 25, 2023

SDD (Small dams index) defined as the number of small damos per square root of basin area. See the research article cited in the 'Credits' filed. The index is calculated per each quaternary basin of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.

Climate change plagues Western Cape agriculture

Andrea Iervolino

Nov 7, 2019

“The effects of climate change are unfolding before our eyes,” says Janse Rabie, Agri SA policy head for natural resources. “Unpredictability in weather patterns and the associated impacts makes planning considerably more difficult and heighten the risk for farming in South Afri ...

South Africa announces water restrictions as dam levels drop

Andrea Iervolino

Oct 30, 2019

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's government is announcing water restrictions as reservoir levels drop and rainfall is not expected until December.

Making sense of the situation in Cape Town

Andrea Iervolino

Jun 1, 2018

Cape Town has come dangerously close to running out of water after 3 years of persistent drought. Tight water usage restrictions have been successful in stalling 'day zero' - when the city's taps will be turned off - until 2019, buying time for authorities to look for m ...