adaptive management

The Atlantis Water Resource Management Scheme (AWRMS) has operated since the 1970s. It demonstrates cost-effective and wise water use and recycling through visionary town planning and Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR), offering water security to Atlantis’s residential and industrial sectors. For the AWRMS to succeed, it required integrating its water supply, wastewater and stormwater systems. Each of these water systems is complex and requires a multidisciplinary management approach.

Using citizen science approach to influence implementation of science-policy interface concept leads to optimal use and protection of groundwater resources that ensures sustained research for practical policy dialogue. Mere determination of water resource classes, the reserve and resource quality objectives within the resource directed measures (RDM) concept for protection of groundwater water resources without considering implementation aspects, propels for defiance in policy implementation at local scale.

Wiegmans, FE