Poor water management threatens South Africa’s crown jewel

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When rain falls in the Kruger National Park everyone and everything is relatively easy, but when it doesn't, water in- and outputs need to be managed.

Elephants cross the Sabie River at Skukuza, 8 November 2019. Picture: Amanda Watson

Riddell’s expanded job description is Strategic Adaptive Water Resource Management for Aquatic-Linked Ecosystem Conservation: providing managerial and governance leadership for the implementation of adaptive river system operations for ecological preservation in a geo-politically and socio-economically complex setting; and ensuring adaptable biodiversity outcomes for river system conservation in the Kruger National Park and delivery of the ecosystem goods and services for humans and nature in...

At more than two million hectares including its concessionaires, the Kruger shares borders with Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and straddles both Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces – and water from all of the aforementioned water basins – together with everyone on its borders and the more than a million visitors the park receives each year.

Which could be a while, as Department of Human Settlements, Water & Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu commented recently, with dam-filling rains in Gauteng only expected to arrive in December. “Three years after the drought, now we’ve started to see some problems, and these aren’t entirely unexpected,” Riddell said.

 

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