Overview
Presents the perspective of the city administration responsible for water management during the drought
Insights from one of the first aspiring world-class cities to run out of water due to climate change
Provides in-depth experience of city administration in the strategies followed to reduce demand beyond expectation
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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.
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Book Title: Parched - The Cape Town Drought Story
Authors: Gisela Kaiser
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78889-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78888-9Published: 26 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78891-9Published: 27 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78889-6Published: 25 October 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 290
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Water, general, Sustainable Development, Environmental Management, Economic Policy, Media and Communication