Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / Due to climate change, rapid urbanization, and population expansion, the water demand and
supply is showing increasing fluctuations, especially in the arid or semi-arid regions. One of
the most important water resource management strategies to improve water security in these
drought-prone areas is managed aquifer recharge (MAR), which is developed to recharge
groundwater purposefully and increase its storage to overcome the temporal imbalance
between local water demand and availability, thus improving water security of the water
supply. Assessment of an MAR project requires the integration of many types of methods,
data and information from many disciplines, which makes it a challenge. This thesis
addressed a GIS based modeling approach for assessing the implementation of MAR in terms
of suitable sites as well as appropriate scheme in drought-prone area. The West Coast of
South Africa was studied as a case.
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| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/7973 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Zhang, Heng |
| Contributors | Xu, Yongxin |
| Publisher | University of the Western Cape |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | University of the Western Cape |
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