The CAO (Office of the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman), an independent post that
reports directly to the President of the World Bank Group, recently published Participatory Water Monitoring : a Guide for Preventing and Managing Conflict. Developed in the context of a a major gold mining project in Peru, the guide aims to help communities, developers and others better understand and address...
Queenland, Australia's Paynter Creek in 2006 and restored in 2008
HOORC's Library had a visit today from Mr Mick Smith, Waterways Coordinator, Sunshine Coast Regional Council in Southeast Queensland, Australia where he works on monitoring and restoring ecosystem health of natural watercourses. Mr Smith is on a study tour as a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellow to investigate climate...
Nineteen University of Botswana undergraduate students completed their work for HOORC's Winter Course this week, wrapping up their fieldwork assignments with presentations of the results of their research. This year's work included economics studies from Mbakile P. Seabe - Household attitudes and willingness to pay for the conservation of Lake Ngami, Botswana -- Kaelo Galeage - The impact of...
In
Economics,
Education,
public health,
Livelihoods,
fisheries,
Research,
Vegetation,
Cultural Resources,
Community Based Natural Resource Management,
Water Resources,
Pollution
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLVI, no. 35, 6 June 2008
Tender: Republic of Botswana: consultancy services for regional integration of Botswana’s transport sector study
2819
Tender: Tawana Land Board: tourism related sites identification in the Okavango Delta Ramsar Site (ODRS) second publication
2863
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLVI, no. 36, 13 June 2008
Statutory...
Paste 08, the 11th International Seminar on Paste and Thickened Tailings, will be held in Kasane from 5th to 9th of May 2008. The aim of the meeting is to promote the technology of paste and thickened tailings as a technological alternative solution to conventional mine waste disposal. The objective of hosting this seminar in Botswana is to emphasize the importance of responsible water usage in...
Sampling aquatic invertebrates
The Botswana Department of Animal Health and Production has released Recovery monitoring after 2006 aerial spraying of deltamethrin for tsetse fly eradication in the Kwando-Linyanti and Caprivi region, edited by HOORC researchers Casper Bonyongo and Dominic Mazvimavi. The conclusion drawn from the 2006 spraying indicated that, in addition to affecting the...
Photo courtesy of Wesley Anderson With the holiday period fast approaching. the summer rains are coming more regularly, and activities at HOORC are slowing. School for International Training students, in and out of HOORC's library on their independent study projects for the past three weeks, have completed their papers are heading back home for the holidays. Among the projects carried out at or...
Pieter Smit of North-West University, South Africa, was at HOORC recently, working with Dr Wellington Masamba to establish an experimental site as part of the APINA Ozone Biomonitoring Project. The project, sponsored by SIDA and coordinated by the Air Pollution Information Network for Africa, aims at monitoring the occurrence of tropospheric ozone in southern Africa. Tropospheric or ground level...
Open Billed Stork, courtesy of Hannelore Bendsen
The latest report in HOORC's work on tsetse fly control, Environmental monitoring of May-August 2006 aerial spraying of deltamethrin for tsetse fly eradication in the Kwando-Linyanti and Caprivi region, prepared by HOORC researchers Casper Bonyongo and Dominic Mazvimavi for Botswana's Department of Animal Health and Production has been...
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLIII, no. 71, 26 October 2007
Tender: Republic of Botswana: engineering consultancy services for design, tender documentation and supervision of major villages sanitation schemes
5792
Tender announcements and documents may also be found on the Government of Botswana web site. The entire issue of the Government Gazette may be read in HOORC’s...
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLV, no. 70 19 October 2007
Republic of Botswana: Government Notice No. 566 of 2007: Standards Act : Standard Specifications for Botswana (including storm water drainage, aggregates for natural resources, water quality sampling, environmental management systems, customer satisfaction)
5671-5673
Republic of Botswana: Ministry of Environment, Wildlife...
The National Academy of Sciences and the Global Health and Education Foundation have released an interactive educational web resource about drinking water, Safe Drinking Water is Essential. The site uses sliding panels, pictures and maps to allow the user to explore information about drinking water sources, distribution and treatment. For example, the Technologies Decision Tool shows recommended...
The African Union's Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC) has set up a technical task force to plan for a multi-national project to eradicate trypanosomiasis in the common tsetse belt in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. HOORC researcher and tsetse fly spraying monitoring specialist, Dr Casper Bonyongo will join William Shereni and David Zinyengere of...
Winter Course Student Presentations
HOORC’s 2007 class of University of Botswana Winter Course students were completing their project reports this week, following six weeks of intensive study and fieldwork in the Okavango Delta and Ngamiland. Seanokeng Kedisaletse and Boikanyo Mokgweetsi looked at different aspects of solid waste management with Solid waste management in Maun, and Household...
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLV, no. 47 6 July 2007
Republic of Botswana, Ministry of Agriculture: Agrochemicals Act (Act No. 18, of 1999): registration of agrochemicals
3656-3657
Tender announcements and documents may also be found on the Government of Botswana web site. The entire issue of the Government Gazette may be read in HOORC’s...
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLV, no. 37 25 May 2007
Republic of Botswana Ministry of Agriculture: Agrochemicals Act (Act no. 18 of 1999): registration of agrochemicals
2735
Republic of Botswana tender: computer hardware and equipment for Tribal Land Integrated Management System (TLIMS) Rollout Phase
2779
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLV, no. 40 8 June 2007...
Artificial ponds ready for water, and first visitor
Elmar Schuran , visiting student of odonatologist Jens Kipping, has installed test ponds for dragonfly larvae not far from HOORC’s library verandah. When filled with water, the ponds will allow scientists to observe the impact of the insecticide Deltamethrin on the development of dragonfly larvae. Deltamethrin is being sprayed in the...
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLV, no. 36 11 May 2007
Standards Act: Standard Specifications for Botswana: BOS 123:2005 Water quality – determination of manganese by persulphate method; BOS 124:2005 Water quality – determination of manganese by atomic absorption spectrometry; BOS 125:2005 Water quality – determination of dissolved solids; BOS 133:2005 Water quality – pre-treatment...
The ELDIS site alerted us to the International Water and Sanitation Centre 's new guide, Practical advice and references for establishing water and sanitation. Aimed at people working in the water and sanitation sector who want to know more about partnerships, the guide offers useful links to related documents and publications on partnerships, websites related to water and sanitation...
From the Botswana Government Gazette, Vol. XLV, no. 18 2 March 2007
Tender: Republic of Botswana Consultancy services for the review of the district planning handbook
1012
Tender: Republic of Botswana: Firebreak maintenance for the Department of Forestry and Range Resources
1019
Tender: Republic of Botswana: Water tariff study
1020
Tender: North West District Council: privatization of waste...