1st SADC Groundwater Conference Presentations

THEME: “Adapting to Climate Change in the SADC Region through water security - A Focus on Groundwater.”

Day 1 - Morning Session
Evaluation of the SADC-HMBD
An Assessment of Malawi’s Transboundary Aquifers and Prioritization of Vulnerable Hotspots
Critical Review of South Africa’s National Groundwater Monitoring network – Implications to Transboundary Aquifer Management Obligations
Implications of Climate Change for Groundwater Recharge in the Transboundary Tuli-karoo Sub-basin
Implementing transboundary aquifer cooperation in Africa: Lessons learned from the Ramotswa and Stampriet Aquifers
Water-energy-food Security in SADC
Conjunctive management of surface and groundwater in transboundary watercourses: a first assessment
Adapting to Climate Change in the SADC Region A Focus on Groundwater
Evaluation of soil-water, nutrient and salts management in irrigated agriculture in transboundary Ramotswa Aquifer Area in Limpopo River Basin
Predicting Soil Secondary Salinization from Groundwater Evaporation using Artificial Neural Networks
Day 1 - Afternoon Session
Managing Transboundary Aquifers: the role of large protected area management with a focus on the Limpopo TBA
Identifying Transboundary Aquifer hotspots in the SADC-region.
Hydrological Dynamics of the Tuli-karoo Transboundary Aquifer
Groundwater: avoiding the single story
Deep, Semi-fossil Aquifers in Southern Africa: From Occasional Findings Towards an Exploration Strategy
Free Software as a tool to optimize groundwater data management- Phuti Mabotja, Eelco Lukas, Modreck Gomo, Geert-Jan Nijsten and Arnaud Sterckx
Supporting Sustainable Agricultural Groundwater Use in a Hard Rock Catchment, Hout, Limpopo Province, South Africa – Application of an Integrated Hydrogeological Model
Towards improved governance of transboundary aquifers in Southern Africa: The establishment of the Stampriet Transboundary Aquifer System (STAS) Multi-Country Cooperation Mechanism (MCCM)
Groundwater governance and the demand for agricultural use beyond sustainability in the Grootfontein-Tsumeb-Otavi Subterranean Water Control Area in Namibia.
The Ramotswa Information Management System (RIMS) – a tool to support governance of the Ramotswa Transboundary Aquifer
Day 2 - Morning Session
Common Inaccuracies To Avoid In The Field: A Focus On The SADC Region
Integrated Hydrological Model Of The Central Kalahari Basin – Optimal Tool For Assessment Of Sustainability Of Groundwater Resources
Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on Urban and Peri-Urban Groundwater Resources- Lessons learnt from Botswana
The Groundwater-Climate Change-Sanitation Nexus: A Case Study from Ramotswa, Botswana
A review of climate change impact understanding on ground water recharge and baseflow in the SADC region.
Groundwater Resources Assessment of the Nyl River Flood Plain, South Africa, and its relation to the Hydrological Regime of the System during Drought, and proposed Management Options
Supporting Sustainable Agricultural Groundwater Use in a Hard Rock Catchment, Hout, Limpopo Province, South Africa – Application of an Integrated Hydrogeological Model
Beneath the Surface of Climate Change: Managing Natural Climate Variability toward Sustainable Groundwater
Review of MAR practice in Africa
Day 2 - Afternoon Session
Geochemical Investigation Of An Underground Coal Mine, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Development of a Training Manual for Groundwater Resource Management and Groundwater Governance for Municipalities in South Africa
Groundwater Resources Evaluation- Central Kalahari – Karoo Basin
On the Methods to Determine Borehole Sustainable Yield
Experiences in the use of groundwater to secure certain critical WCG facilities
Assessing surface water – groundwater interactions using multiple hydraulic, hydrochemical and baseflow analysis methods: A study in B81D quaternary cacthment in the Upper Limpopo Basin, South Africa
Promoting Groundwater Cooperation in Southern Africa through Modeling: the Stampriet Transboudnary Aquifer System (STAS) case study
An analysis of handpump boreholes functionality in Malawi
Resilience of rural groundwater supplies to change
Day 3 - Final Session
Key messages from the 1st SADC-GMI Groundwater Conference to the Africa Water Week and Beyond
Policy, Legal And Institutional Development For Groundwater Management In The SADC Member States (GMI-PLI)
Groundwater and African National Development Strategies
Round-table Discussion Questions
Development of a SADC Framework for Groundwater Data Collection & Management.
Gap analysis of groundwater data collection and management in SADC Member States
Conjunctive water management in the transboundary Shire river-aquifer system between Malawi and Mozambique: A framework for co-management

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