Atlantis is located approximately 50 km north of Cape Town along the west coast of South Africa . It was developed from 1976 as a growth point” with tax incentives for industry, and originally planned for 500 000 inhabitants (Bugan et al., 2016)
- Estimates of the impacts of alien plant invasions on surface water runoff in South Africa were, and continue to be, a key factor in motivating for the establishment and continuation of the Working for Water programme (Van Wilgen et al., 1998).
- Water resources in arid and semi-arid regions are under great pressure from among others; (1) increased demand by growing populations, (2) climate change,(3) invasive alien plants that consume large quantities of water (Le Maitre, 1999)