• Baynes Hydropower Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA)

    Year: 2009 – 2010 | Client: ERM/ Angola and Namibia Governments | Location: Angola, Namibia

    EFlows determinations using DRIFT for three sites on the Cunene River in northern Namibia. The original EFs formed an integral part of the ESIA for the proposed hydropower stations at Baynes Gorge. This project is to update those, and to firm up sediment predictions. The DSS will then be used to assess the influence on the Cunene River ecosystem, and linked livelihoods, of scenarios encompassing development options (new HPP/no new HPP), upstream water abstraction and climate change.

  • Lower Orange River Management Study

    Year: 2002 – 2005 | Client: South African and Namibian Department of Water Affairs | Location: Namibia

    An assessment of the relationship between the current flow regime in the river and the EFR recommended by the Desktop Model was examined, and appropriate changes be made to the recommended flows.  The results of these analyses were incorporated into the systems modelling for planning purposes.  Thereafter a ToR for a Comprehensive (reactive) EF assessment for the Orange River and its estuary was compiled.

  • Okavango Technical Diagnostic Analysis/EF component

    Year: 2008 – 2009 | Client: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | Location: Botswana, Namibia, Angola

    The objectives of the Okavango Technical Diagnostic Analysis/EF component are to collate biophysical and social information for the basin into a integrated flow assessment tool, which will allow for the generation of future scenarios of water use and the implications for the rivers, delta and local people for use in water-related decision-making

 

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