Essay on journey of water from mountain to land
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When opening taps for free flowing water in our homes, it’s so easy to forget that long before that water reaches our homes it has travelled a long journey to get there.
Before water flows through pipes to reach cities and towns, it starts in nature. The ecosystems that provide this vital resource must be protected and managed sustainably if they are to meet the needs of South Africa’s growing economy.
Recently WWF South Africa launched the Journey of Water to connect urban water users to their water sources, which are often distant and not given the recognition they deserve from the public.
Researchers from WWF and the Council For Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) recently mapped out all of South Africa’s water source areas. By modelling information about rainfall and river run-off, the study revealed that only 8% of our land delivers more than 50% of South Africa’s surface water. These water production areas are high-rainfall environments that are essentially nature’s water factories which supply water to the majority of the country.
In the Western Cape seven water source areas supply the water to the people of our region:
Boland Mountains
Groot Winterhoek
Kougaberg
Langeberg Mountains
Outeniqua
Swartberg
Table Mountain
These areas not only supply the catchments and dams downstream, but also provide water to communities in and around towns and cities, the farming sector and industries that help drive our economy.
Human activities can severely impact on both the quality and quantity of this precious resource that eventually ends up in our taps, and for this reason it is vital for us to conserve not only our freshwater areas, but also the mountain catchments, estuaries and marine environments.
Did you know: just 8% of South Africa’s land area provides half of its surface water? Visit the journey of water website read about the catchment areas in the Western Cape.
Before water flows through pipes to reach cities and towns, it starts in nature. The ecosystems that provide this vital resource must be protected and managed sustainably if they are to meet the needs of South Africa’s growing economy.
Recently WWF South Africa launched the Journey of Water to connect urban water users to their water sources, which are often distant and not given the recognition they deserve from the public.
Researchers from WWF and the Council For Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) recently mapped out all of South Africa’s water source areas. By modelling information about rainfall and river run-off, the study revealed that only 8% of our land delivers more than 50% of South Africa’s surface water. These water production areas are high-rainfall environments that are essentially nature’s water factories which supply water to the majority of the country.
In the Western Cape seven water source areas supply the water to the people of our region:
Boland Mountains
Groot Winterhoek
Kougaberg
Langeberg Mountains
Outeniqua
Swartberg
Table Mountain
These areas not only supply the catchments and dams downstream, but also provide water to communities in and around towns and cities, the farming sector and industries that help drive our economy.
Human activities can severely impact on both the quality and quantity of this precious resource that eventually ends up in our taps, and for this reason it is vital for us to conserve not only our freshwater areas, but also the mountain catchments, estuaries and marine environments.
Did you know: just 8% of South Africa’s land area provides half of its surface water? Visit the journey of water website read about the catchment areas in the Western Cape.
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The journey of water from the mountain to land:
- Water from mountains to land is naturally a process of nature. This journey covers a distance of longer territory. A river is generally formed by the meltdown of mountain region glaciers and flows down the valleys at lower altitudes.
- In the journey, it keeps breaking the bank’s soil thus providing sharp edges to the mountains of higher regions. The hight current flows carry substance thus making the lower valley much fertile.
- Descending down the valley due to lack of slopes, speed of flow reduced several times however forms deltas before they meet the oceans.
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