The SANFLOW program represents the first of several programs that are being developed through the WRC in order to assist water suppliers to manage and reduce their levels of unaccounted-for water.
Category: Advisory packages, guidelines, and tools
National Water Act
To provide for fundamental reform of the law relating to water resources; to repeal certain laws; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
The use of small-scale equipment for evaluating water treatment plants
Water treatment involves the complex interaction of processes such as mixing, coagulation, flocculation, sedimentation, clarification and disinfection. Tools have been developed to simulate the full-scale water treatment plants in order to optimise and monitor the processes in terms of the chemical dosages and physical parameters.
Pressure Management Program (PRESMAC)
The PRESMAC model represents one of several models that are being developed through the WRC in order to assist water suppliers to manage and reduce their levels of unaccounted-for water.
Policy and Regulations
The purpose of the report is to understand how water footprints may contribute to sustainable management of water in South Africa primarily in the industrial sector, and to explore linkages between water and energy and the concept of water offsetting.
Monitoring and Evaluation Manual
Effective Monitoring and Evaluation is useful to the extent that it provides information to an effective management system and should ideally be part of a performance management system.
Aqualite Water balance software
AQUALITE is the first of a new generation of models designed to assist water suppliers in managing their non-revenue water. It is effectively an annual water-audit model based on the latest IWA best practice. It has been developed through close co-operation of numerous internationally recognized water loss managers from several countries and incorporates a host of features, many of which are not available in other water audit models.
Economic Model for Leakage Management for Water Suppliers in South Africa (ECONOLEAK)
The ECONOLEAK mode is aimed specifically at determining when a water supplier should invest in active leakage control for a specific zone metered area.
Hour-Day
The Hour-Day Factor is simply a factor that can be applied to a reduction (or increase) in the pressure dependent flow occurring at the hour of Minimum Night Flow to provide an indication of the total daily saving (or increase) in pressure dependent flow that can be expected over the whole 24-hour period.
Evaluation Toolkit
Gauteng has limited natural water resources and therefore relies on a very large and highly engineered system called the Integrated Vaal River System (IVRS) which draws water from five different river basins across six provinces.