End of an era as old KNP river research accommodation demolished

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Water and the environment During the last decade of the 1990s, the River Park Homes accommodated a constant flow of aquatic and other scientists studying the rivers of one of Africa’s most iconic national parks. The structures were originally donated by the Department of Water Affairs (DW A) and built at the start of the Kruger National Park Rivers Research Programme (KNPRRP). This programme, which ran between 1990 and 2000, was a highly successful, multi-disciplinary, multiorganisational programme aimed at addressing major concerns about water quantity and quality of the perennial rivers flowing through the Kruger National Park. It was largely as a result of the effort of former South African National Parks (SANParks) programme manager, Dr Andrew Deacon, that the homes were erected. “ At the time I was the logistical coordinator of the KNPRRP , and accommodation was becoming a logistical nightmare since river researchers started to pour into the park to participate in the project, ” he tells the Water Wheel.

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