Short Course - Sustainable Water Management

Outline

Designed to equip the next generation to solve Africa’s increasingly complex water challenges, this programme stretches students to think critically about Africa’s increasingly complex water challenges.
The course challenges participants to consider water in new ways, develop the tools to do so and equip them with the skills to apply their learnings in different contexts. It adopts an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary (IDTD) approach to examine the complexity of current water crises, trends and conditions, with specific examples from the African continent.
Whilst focusing on water demand, supply and treatment, it addresses the need to derive maximum benefit from water resources while incurring minimum burden and the need to secure alternative water sources in a water-sensitive context.

Topics Covered

• Water and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
• Integrated urban water management and water sensitive urban design.
• Social impacts and health concerns.
• Wastewater treatment and remediation practices.
• Anthropological impacts on water quality.
• The role of water in the social fabric and the under-pinning of sustainable livelihoods considering culture, privilege and inequality.
• The IDTD research paradigm in integrated water management.
• The water-food-energy nexus.
• Resource recovery and the circular economy.

Field Trips

• The Water Hub
• Langrug Community
• Cape Peninsula Tour