Our Services
IWR Water Resources is currently actively involved in research and development, both in-house (self-funded) and through the Water Research Commission as well as Rhodes University.
Consultancy
The core expertise of the company is as follows:
- Yield analysis of dams and large integrated systems
- Water resources modeling in support of the determination of ecological water requirements of both rivers and estuaries
- Ecological Reserve implementation
- Hydrological analysis
- Forest hydrology
- Development of operating rules of dams
- Development of Water Allocation Plans
- Agricultural water use and management
- Catchment management studies
- Water use license assessments, including trading
- Flood-line determination
- Project management and co-ordination
- Water management institutions development
- Eco-hydraulics modeling for ecological water requirements
- Designing of bulk water infrastructures
Research & Development
IWR Water Resources (Pty) Ltd is currently actively involved in research and development, both in-house (self-funded) and through the Water Research Commission as well as Rhodes University. Research topics include inter alia:
- Uncertainty in hydrological and water resources models
- Environmental flow requirements of wetlands
- Implementation of the ecological Reserves
- The Shared Rivers programme which is analyzing the ecological state of rivers which flow through the Kruger National Park
- Low-flow river hydraulics in support of ecological Reserve determination:-
- Current – The Development of a Computer Based Decision Support System for Quantifying the Components of the Ecological Reserve – Hydraulics Sub-model. WRC Project K5/1856
Models & Softwares
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Our Profiled Work
Recent South African projects in which the IWR Water Resources (Pty) Ltd team has been involved include:
- Design And Implementation Of Emjindini Trust Bulk Pipeline, Storage And Reticulation
- Appointment Of Professional Consultants To Render Technical Support Services To The Mbombela Local Municipality In Performing Its Water Services Authority Functions
- Development of Operating Rules for water supply and drought management for Stand-Alone Dams and Schemes :Southern and western clusters
- Technical Support and Maintenance of Operational Water Resources Planning and Modelling requirements of River Systems managed by the ICMA
- Inkomati River Catchment: Modelling Support for Licensing Scenarios. Assist with all water resources modelling, validation and verification of water use and license application.
- The Provison of Provincial Support to the Mpumalanga DWAF Regional Office for the Water Resources Management to fulfil the DWAF’s Water Legislative Functions on a Draw down basis.
- Water Requirements and Availability Reconciliation Strategy for the Mbombela Municipal Area
- Hydrology, Water Resources Analysis and Water Use validation study for Nkomati Mine
- Development of Real-Time Decision Support System for Sabie and Sand rivers focusing on Short-term forecasts and Long-term operating rules of the dams.
- Development of real-time decision support system for Crocodile East rivers focusing on long term operating rules of the dams.
Recent projects within other SADC countries:
- Zambezi basin Development
- Water resources support to the determination of environmental flow requirements of the Kafue river, Zambia
- Evaluation of Water Use and Irrigation Efficiencies in the Upper Komati, Swaziland
- Progressive Realisation of the IncMaputo Agreement: Water Resources aspects of the IWRM study (South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique)
- Yield analysis of the Corumana Dam: Mozambique
- ZINWA Save and ARA-Centro Information Management Strategy
- Hydrological review of the development of a high-level hydrological model for Area 2 & 3 of the planned Angola Exploration Mining Resources (Pty) Ltd (AEMR) operations in Angola.