KSA: Water Resources and Ecosystems
Title: SP2 – Dam engineering and socio-ecological systems
ToR ID: 1009812
Contact Person: Bonani Madikizela bonanim@wrc.org.za
John Dini johnd@wrc.org.za
Closing Date: 16 August 2020
Brief description of ToR
The most cost-effective means to manage dam siltation is through smart infrastructure and catchment interventions. In the South African context, while both engineering and catchment approaches are reasonably well developed to varying degrees in their own right, there is a less well developed body of knowledge and practice around integrating these in order to enable a holistic, optimized grey-green infrastructure approach with clearly defined costs and benefits. A multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach is required to operationalize the integrated management of land and water, by utilising expertise from engineers, planners, economists, social and natural scientists, and citizen scientists. The aim of this project will be to generate and test tools that will enable the alleviation of dam siltation through optimized catchment management as well as dam engineering methodologies (e.g. integrating both ecological and built infrastructure) and innovations.
