CBSS, with the aid of the WRC’s WADER programme, has appointed Bosch Capital to develop a business model for CBSS’s LEGUAAN SaaS that visualises WQ data. CBSS has developed this water resource management tool to facilitate the efficient conversion of water monitoring data into meaningful visual graphs and reports that meet specific requirements of each organisation and that facilitate improved monitoring, risk management, and compliance.
Independent researchers from the IGS, in partnership with CBSS, have been appointed by PASA to design a groundwater monitoring network for the Central Karoo.
Carin Bosman presented a Webinar for WISA on 16 July 2020, with the topic “How to turn your Water Quality Data into Water Management Knowledge” – you can watch it here
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According to the CER, mining companies ascribe their non-compliance with WUL conditions to government’s failure to effectively monitor compliance and gross negligence on the part of environmental auditors.
This is very true.
The solution to the problem of information-overload lies in the digitisation, digitalisation and visualisation of your data, which will enable managers to take improved decisions – both for their organisation, and for the management of impacts on the environment, especially on water resources.
The lack of capacity in the DWS is not the main reason for the delays experienced in the processing of WULAs. The poor quality of WULAs, compiled by consultants who think that a WULA is the same as an EIA, who fail to correctly identify the proper water uses to include in the WULA, are the primary contributing factors in the delay of the processing of WULAs.
(Opinion piece on shalegas development and hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) written for Beeld Newspaper, 27 March 2011) ‘n Tegniek bekend as hidrobreking word gebruik vir die ekonomiese ontginning van skaliegas. Hidrobreking is nie – soos die bemarkingsdokumente verkondig – ‘n “beproefde proses wat oor 60 jaar in duisende gate getoets is” nie. Dit is nuwe, ongetoetsde tegnologie, en in plekke waar dit reeds geïmplementeer is, het dit tot groot omgewingsskade, veral waterbesoedeling,
The inconvenient truths about our polluted water supplies aren’t going unchallenged — at least not by these activists. The principled insider Carin Bosman worked for the Department of Water Affairs both before and after 1994 and has the unassailable distinction of having pissed off people on both sides of that political divide. As an independent consultant these days, her technical knowledge, coupled with her managerial ability and first-hand experience of