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Strategies to mitigate climate change a drought in respect of water and sanitation
Presented by:
Dept. of Water & Sanitation
Date: Oct 2018 WATER IS LIFE, SANITATION IS DIGNITY
Overview of the presentation • South Africa's water situation in terms of
- Climate, freshwater scarcity and stress & distribution
• Drought management strategy
- Operating analyses and rules, water plans and decision processes
• Climate change strategy
- Strategic actions, mainstreaming and climate risks and vulnerability assessments
• Water demand and supply options
• Conclusions
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Sout h Africa's water sit uation • South Africa is one of the driest countries in SADC
• Only 9% of rainfall feeds rivers as runoff while only 4% recharges (replenishes) groundwater storage
• South Africa's climate is also highly variable
• South Africa is water stressed, and approaching scarcity Qepbetween exla•lllg tupply11ndproJeo•ed'dem•ndln2030, 'r.ol2030<knwld Cl 1• mate Impacts 'pri·or to
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factoring in climate change): Less rainfall under natural conditions; more evaporation due to high temperature - hence low runoff and low recharge (equals very little water)
Highly variable climate - makes planning difficult because system response {from sudden wet to dry) - What's actual impact is key.
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Fresh water stress per region (note increased demand between 1995 and 2025)
Key message 1: Increased water use will contribute to increased water stress leading to scarcity (in future) - ACTION: manage requirements :
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Strategies to address water related challenges
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Drought strategy & implementation
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OBJECTIVES OF THE DROUGHT M ANAGEM ENT STRATEGY
• 1 To standardize methods for the development and implementation of operating rules for water supply and drought management in South Africa
• 1 Drought management rules are embedded within water supply operating rules to ensure that appropriate protocols are readily available in case of drought, because it is not easy to determine exactly when drought has commenced.
• To document processes involved in the development and implementation of the operating rules, in order to help facilitate skills transfer and capacitation
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MANDATE • The Strategy is in line with the National
Water Act, 1998 (Act No. 36 of 1998) regarding, for example:
- i. Chapter 14, in which "Part 3 requires certain information relating to floods~ droughts and any other potential water-related risks to be made available to the public ... "
- ii. Schedule 3, Sec. 6, which requires that the relevant responsible authority mav temporarily control, limit or prohibit use of water during periods of water shortage
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WHAT IS AN OPERATING RULE • An operating rule is a plan for governing the
regulation of water resources schemes in order to reconcile expected water requirements with availability
• Purpose of operating rules is to guide good practice procedures for managing abstractions, releases and restrictions in order to ensure equitable supply of water and mitigation against risk of failure (drying) of water resources, minimize water losses through spillages and reduce operational costs of the scheme
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BROAD CONTEXT AND RATIONALE OF ANNUAL OPERATING ANALYSES
Operating rules are determined/reviewed annually because:
• Surface water resources are annually replenished during rain season
• Operational water allocation for businesses is based on prevailing season's hydrology and is seldom the same as licensed water allocation
• Water requirement orders tend to differ from year to year as users' annual business plans vary
• The state of facilitating infrastructure may change from time to time on account of different annual maintenance and/or development schedules.
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SCOPE OF OPERATING RULES
Operating rules themselves are system specific ibecause: ' • Water resource availability depend on the
characteristics of the specific catchment's hydrology
• It is also dependent on the initial water storage of the system, which is not necessarily the same for different systems/dams
• Water requirement patterns and schedules are different for different water schemes
• Applicable by-laws and decision month are not the same for different schemes
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MAIN OUTCOMES OF OPERATING RULES
• 1 Equitable water supply
• 1 Restriction protocols during water shortages
•1 Pre-release indicators to minimize system/dam losses
through spillage
•1 Minimized scheme operational costs
•1 Reduced water losses through other means as evaporation
and seepage, among others
•1 Water quality management
•1 Facilitating infrastructure maintenance
• Maximized system yield through appropriate water mix
•1 Communication, public participation and capacity building
in terms of proper WC/DM, water loss management, etc.
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TIMELINES & INTERDEPENDANCE OF WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT PLANS
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GENERIC DECISION PROCESS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OPERATING RULES
Every 5 years:
• Review the hydrology and infrastructural configuration of the system
• Establish System Operation Forum (SOF)
• Verify licensed water allocations and projected water demands for the next 5 years
• Develop/review appropriate DSS for analyzing systems
operating rules
• Set Decision Date for "Water resource analysis and Budgeting" when SOF is held for communication on abstractable water allocations and restrictions
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GENERIC DECISION PROCESS FOR DEVELOPM ENT AND IMPLEM ENTATION OF THE OPERATING RULES
Annually:
• Confirm capacity of water infrastructure including development and maintenance schedules for the business year
• Obtain Reserve release requirements (as some ROM prescribed floods are not necessarily annual)
• Update monthly water demand schedules for the business year, and its projection over the critical period (or next 5 years)
• Determine initial system storage conditions and conceptualize possible operational scenarios
• Undertake system analysis to determine operating rules for abstraction allocation schedules and restrictions up to the next Decision Month
• Review tariffs and implications for the year
• Presentation & decision on the annual operating rule & water allocation, and in case of restrictions, prepare the gazette notice for DG and establish a JOC
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GENERIC DECISION PROCESS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OPERATING RULES
1 Monthly:
·• ! Monitoring performance of the system to determine if planed objectives are being achieved and communicated with stakeholders
• Audit for compliance with rules/demand allocation schedules and communicate with stakeholders
• 1 Forecast system hydrological trends for early warning of any extreme events' risks
• : In case of flooding/spilling conditions, initiate appropriate transfers and pre-releases
• ! In case of drought, determine & communicate restrictions, and advice Disaster Management office accordingly
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GENERIC DECISION PROCESS FOR DEVELOPM ENT AND IMPLEM ENTATION OF THE OPERATING RULES
v· Weekly:
• Check the systems for unpredictable emergence occurrences
• In case of full dams reduce their risk of spilling by drawing them down first while controlling flooding risks
• Maintain Surveillance on water quality, reserve and · international obligations in order to advice appropriately
• Obtain water orders for the next week or so and plan accordingly
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GENERIC DECISION PROCESSES Freauencv Technical Reauirements Resoonsibllltv
1.1 Review the hvdroloqv and infrastructural confiouration of the svstem D: WRPS
1. Every 5 years This involves 1.2 Verify licensed water allocations and projected water demands for the next 5 vears D: WRPS
comprehensive review of 1.3 Develoo/review aoorooriate DSS for analvzino svstems ooeratina rules D: WRPS
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1.4 Set Decision Date for 'Water Budgeting• when SOF is held for communication , on abstractable water allocations and restrictions D:WRPS v I
I 1.5 Develop/update relevant by-laws to manage water restrictions Respective WSA " I
2.1 Confirm capacity of water infrastructure including development and D:NWRl(O&M), D: maintenance schedules for the business vear WRPS
2.2 Obtain Reserve release requirements (as some ROM prescribed floods are not necessarilvannual) D: WRPS
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oroiection for the critical oeriod (or next 5 vears) D: WRPS 1. Annually 2.4 Assess the prevailing hydrological conditions and capacities of water
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I Decision Month and then monitored for the rest of the water year 2.5 Apply appropriate DSS to run simulation tests & possible operation scenarios
I and determine the ootimal annual ooeratino rules & restrictions if anv D: WRPS
2.6 Based on the operating rules determine abstraction allocation schedules and i restrictions uo to the next Decision Month D:WRPS ' I 2. 7 Review tari ffs and implications for the vear D: NWRI CO&M)
2.8 Presentation & decision on the annual operating rule & water allocation, and in case of restrictions. oreoare the oazette notice for DG and establish a JOC D: WRPS CD: PO
I 3.1 Monitoring performance of the system to determine if planed objectives are D: WRPS, : beina achieved and communicated with stakeholders D:NWRlfO&Ml
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I 3.4 In case of imminent system failure to supply, determine & communicate
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I 4.1 Check the svstems for unoredictable emeraence occurrences Schem e Ooerator I
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' 4.3 Maintain Surveillance on water quality, reserve and International obligations
i In order to advice aoorooriatelv Scheme Ooerator
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Climate change
The Strategy
Strategic actions
l\Aainstreaming of the strategy
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Climate Change Response Strategy for The
Water Sector DWS rtpOlt Numbtr: P ASA 000/00/18012/S ----The Strategy aims:
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../ To effectively manage climate change impacts on the country's water and sanitation through interventions that build and sustain South Africa's social, economic and environmental resilience and emergency response capacity; and
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Strategic Actions (at local, national & regional levels)
• Governance
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• Infrastructure development & operation
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• Implementation
- Roles & responsibilities defined, Monitoring and Evaluation
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In Regard to Weather I Climate, Different Types of Decisions Need to be Made in the Water Sector
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Mainstreaming climate change into water planning &
management · ~oeo consideration of climate related
aspects in water p~anning and management
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Mainstreaming climate change into water and sanitation
management • ·~ Following consultation process with regions,
- Some regions developed own response strategies
- Efficiency in water use in consideration of climate change impacts - promoted during campaigns
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1 Assessment of climate change impacts in reconciliation studies
- uMkhomazi Water Project: on proposed Smithfield Dam
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Assessing the flood design capacity of the Smithfield Dam to accommodate future flood peaks under climate change scenarios for the
eriod 2046-2065. • The magnitude of the future flood peak at that
. dam is projected to increase by 30% requiring a non-overspill crest level of 935.8 m.
• However, this level is within the originally proposed level of 936.0 m which means that crest level provides adequate resilience.
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Climate Change Risk & Vulnerability Assessment: Vaal, Orange, Mzimvubu-Tsitsikamma, Olifants and Limpopo Water Management Areas
Findings - For the Lesotho Highlands is:
• A projected slight increase in summer rainfall and decrease of winter rainfall by more than 25% during the intermediate future {2046 -2065)
• The temperature for Mohale's Hoek area within Lesotho under the worst case scenario for the same period is projected to increase by up to 2°C.
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Addressing water demand and supply
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C~~mate change r~sk ano1 vulnerabUity
assessments
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The Water Conservation and Demand Management is a climate change adaptation strategy to address the demand side of the
water security challenge.
• ; For instance, in this regard the Department continues to work collaboratively with the Local Government (e.g. via War-on-Leaks Project)
- to reduce the non-revenue water challenge
- by improving water use efficiency and
-- reducing water losses from the system.
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Supply: water mix approach with ·ncreased use of unconventional water
sources
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1% 2% 100% iii Acid mine drainage
13% 13% 14% - 80% 14%
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'*' -QI 20% bJ) l.:J Return flows (irrigation co 60% ...,
treated effuent) c QI
~ Groundwater . QI Ill. 40%
Iii Surface water 20%
0%
Water Availability Mid Term 2025 Long Term 2040 Mix{2000)
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South Africa delineated into hydro-climatic zones
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Climate change impacts and strategies per zone
• Some Provinces developed climate change strategies but not water-specific
• DWS developed the strategy per zone (cluster of one or more regions)
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South Africa delineated into hydro-climatic zones
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Zone 1: Limpopo, Olifants & lnkomati
• Key climate variability impacts:
- Likely reduction in rainfall, particularly in the summer
rainfall period
- Significant increased temperatures, and thus evaporation
• Implications
- Less water available, increased demands for agric & domestic use
• Strategies
- Increased efficiency in water use (reduce non-revenue water) enforce compliance to water use licensing
- Increase water mix (groundwater and reuse) sources
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Zone 2: Pongola - Umzimkulu • Key climate variability impacts:
- Likely increase in summer rainfall, with increased large events (storms)
- Moderate increase in temperatures due to proximity to ocean.
• Implications - Flooding
• Strategies - Upscale use of early warning systems to protect
communities from flood events
- Collaborate with other agencies to better manage extreme events
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Zone 3: The Vaal
• Key climate variability impacts:
- Highly uncertain future rainfall, with possible wetting or drying during the summer months.
- Likely increase in storm activity and large rainfall events.
- Significant increase in temperatures
• Implications
- Increased efficiency in water use including water quality management
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Zone 4: The Orange
• Key climate variability impacts:
- Uncertainty of rainfall patterns in the eastern parts, but with likely increased storm activity.
- Likely drying in the arid western and coastal areas.
- Significant increase in temperature expected.
• Implications
- More dependency on groundwater
• Strategies
- Improved groundwater assessment and management
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Zone 5: Mzimvubu-Tsitsikamma
• Key climate variability impacts:
- Uncertainty in rainfall impacts in year round rainfall area, although likely drying in the west.
- Likely increases in the summer rainfall in the western parts.
- Moderate temperature increases.
• Implications for water
- Improve forecasting and projections
• Strategies
- Water reuse and efficiency
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Zone 6: Breede Gouritz -Berg Olifants • Key climate variability impacts:
- Uncertain climate impacts on winter rainfall, but likely increase in orographic activity.
- Possibly spread of rainfall beyond the historical winter rainfall period.
- Moderate temperature increases compared to the rest of the country.
• Implications - Increased vulnerability to drought conditions
• Strategies - Water mix (desalination, development of
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Conclusions • South Africa is a water stressed country and
likely to become water scarce. Hence strategies developed are being implemented
• Successful implementation of (and compliance to) operating rules may contribute to sustainability of water resources
• Mainstreaming of climate change strategies is key to adaptation
• Both demand management (enhanced efficiency in water use) and water mix are sound approaches to resolve water challenges
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