Year: 2021 – 2024 | Client: South African Water Research Commission | Location: Southern Africa

The Africa's Living Rivers Programme: Knowledge Capture Project, developed libraries of generic DRIFT (Downstream Response to Imposed Flow Transformations) response curves that link physical-chemical-biological drivers and ecological-social responses for rivers and estuaries in the SADC (Southern African Development Community). These will allow a coarse-level DRIFT eco-social model to be set up for most major SADC river basins and provide a first level of predictions of the ecological and social implications (risks) of proposed management actions related to changes in the flow of water and sediment without the time or expense of a multidisciplinary team working over many months.