South Africa and Nambia ensuring enough irrigation water together

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Water resource management Drinie van Rensburg A demonstration project on water management was recently conducted at the Noordoewer-Vioolsdrift Joint Irrigation Authority under the auspices of the Orange-Senqu Strategic Action Programme. Sue Matthews reports. South Africa and Namibia ensuring enough irrigation water together The four-year UNDP-GEF Orange-Senqu Strategic Action Programme has recently come to an end, but has provided a solid foundation for sustainable development and environmentally sound water resource management in the Orange-Senqu basin. The programme was established to provide support to the Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM) in promoting integrated water resource management in the basin and its four member countries – South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana and Namibia. It included the finalisation of the Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis to close knowledge gaps and identify problems, causes and effects in the basin, and the Farmers along the lower Orange River are dependent on releases from Vanderkloof Dam, more than 1 000 km upstream.

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