{"id":114,"date":"2019-08-10T15:19:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T15:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/?p=114"},"modified":"2019-08-30T14:29:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T14:29:04","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/2019\/08\/10\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to my MScCCAFS Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My research project tittle is \u201cAnalysis of climate change impacts on\nstreamflow in South African river catchments\u201d conducted in collaboration with\nTHE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE (SAWS), based in Pretoria, South Africa in linkage with ongoing\nSAWS research supported by the Water Research Commission (WRC) of South Africa.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project is\nclose to my heart and relevant to my farming experiences due to the following\nreasons: I started herding my father\u2019s cattle at an early age during this period\nI observed that the Dzindi and Dzondo rivers had a high flow in a way it wasn\u2019t\ndifficult to cross. One could only cross on bridges and man made bridges. &nbsp;Fast forward 2019 these two rivers are dry\neven my seven years old daughter can easily cross with ease. We also used to pump\nirrigation water from Dzindi river without building a weir to lodge water but\nrecently to make it possible to pump irrigation water one will need to build a\nweir first. These is caused by a tremendous decline in rainfall and high evapotranspiration\ncaused by excessive heat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/08\/Luvuvhu-River-1024x673.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/08\/Luvuvhu-River-1024x673.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/08\/Luvuvhu-River-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/08\/Luvuvhu-River-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/08\/Luvuvhu-River-960x631.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/08\/Luvuvhu-River.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Dzindi river with a decline flow Source:  (Source: Department of Water affairs)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The research internship commenced on the 23rd of April 2019 ending on the 26 April 2019 and I was working with the SAWS Research Application Team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/07\/4fb22f8c-7830-4e08-91ac-b96a7bbfe879-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"98\" class=\"wp-image-98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/07\/4fb22f8c-7830-4e08-91ac-b96a7bbfe879-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/07\/4fb22f8c-7830-4e08-91ac-b96a7bbfe879-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/07\/4fb22f8c-7830-4e08-91ac-b96a7bbfe879.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Myself and SAWS Research Application Team<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The river catchments identified for these project were Limpopo river catchments, Olifants river catchments, upper and middle Vaal, Thugela river, Usutu to Mhlatuze river and Inkomati river catchment which are situated in the inland regions of South Africa which are the regions highly impacted by climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/08\/South-African-drainage-regions.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153\" width=\"591\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/08\/South-African-drainage-regions.png 651w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/78\/2019\/08\/South-African-drainage-regions-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research project tittle is \u201cAnalysis of climate change impacts on streamflow in South African river catchments\u201d conducted in collaboration with THE SOUTH AFRICAN WEATHER SERVICE (SAWS), based in Pretoria, South Africa in linkage with ongoing SAWS research supported by the Water Research Commission (WRC) of South Africa. This project is close to my heart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/2019\/08\/10\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Introduction to my MScCCAFS Project\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/rudzani-khameli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}