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Sustainable urban water management in Cape Town, South Africa: is it a pipe dream?
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:07 authored by Kirsty Carden, Kevin Winter, N. ArmitageThe City of Cape Town (South Africa) faces numerous challenges in respect of water supply, drainage
and sanitation services. It is hypothesised that the potential for long term
sustainability in urban water
systems can be established through the application of a five component
sustainability index. This paper
describes the development of such an index, the “Sustainability Index for Integrated Urban Water
Management” (SIUWM), for specific application to southern African cities. It reviews the results from
initial testing of the index on Cape Town, discusses its usefulness in terms of sustainability assessment,
and provides a way forward for continuation of the research. It concludes that, by drawing on the
numerous connections that link the different aspects of urban water management, the SIUWM is able to
highlight several critical areas of “unsustainability” in the City and shows that sustainability will remain
a pipe dream if these challenges are not addressed systematically and urgently.
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- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
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- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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CARDEN, K. ... et al, 2009. Sustainable urban water management in Cape Town, South Africa: is it a pipe dream?. IN: Shaw, R.J. (ed). Water, sanitation and hygiene - Sustainable development and multisectoral approaches: Proceedings of the 34th WEDC International Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 18-22 May 2009, 8p.p.Publisher
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WEDC_ID:10275Language
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