Urban water management challenges and achievements in Windhoek, Namibia

Lewis, Earl W.; Staddon, Chad; Sirunda, Johannes

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the main challenges and achievements faced by Windhoek’s water management sector. The paper highlights pertinent issues arising from increased water demand, and also explores current and future water supply augmentation options. Water planners experience management challenges as a result of a combination of factors, mainly, lack of funds and staff, limited expertise, poor communication between stakeholders, and weak regulation and enforcement. In order to meet these challenges water managers need to develop more robust and resilient strategies, including greater focus on water demand management.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 1, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Aug 3, 2019
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Sep 26, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 4, 2020
• Journal: Water Practice and Technology
• Print ISSN: 1751-231X
• Publisher: IWA Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 703-713
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2019.055
• Keywords: Water Science and Technology
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/3281038