Development of the South African Water Resource Classification System (WRCS): a tool towards the sustainable, equitable and efficient use of water resources

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This paper describes the development and rationale of a holistic and transparent approach for evaluating the ecological, social and economic trade-offs in water allocation in order to set the ecological Reserve (freshwater allocation) to aquatic ecosystems.

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Sustainable Development Goals
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Dollar, E. S. J., Nicolson, C. R., Brown, C. A., Turpie, J. K., Joubert, A. R. Turton, A. R., Grobler, D. F., Pienaar, H. H., Ewart-Smith J. and Manyaka, S. M. 2010. Development of the South African Water Resource Classification System (WR
Publication | 21 January 2011