Water Wheel July/August 2020: Climate Change And Rivers

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Researchers develop environmental water temperature guidelines for SA rivers It is a well-known fact that effective water resource management needs reliable data, Dr Helen Dallas, Executive Director of the Freshwater Research Centre (FRC), highlighted. “Reliable data underpins good water governance, and effective water management helps with adaptation to climate change.” Dallas and Dr Nick Rivers-Moore recently published a comprehensive technical manual for setting water temperature targets for South Africa’s perennial rivers. Dallas has over 30 years’ experience working on and leading collaborative research projects on the ecology, conservation and management of aquatic ecosystems in southern Africa. She is a C2-rated researcher with the National Research Foundation, and a research associate of the University of Cape Town and the Nelson Mandela University. Rivers-Moore, a fellow researcher at the FRC in Cape Town, is an aquatic ecologist with 20 years of experience in this field.

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