3 Case Study: Atlantis, Cape Town South Africa

The aim of presenting many case studies in this book is to discuss:

• different driving forces towards the use of MAR techniques;
• factors that affect the selection of a particular MAR technique;
• different MAR techniques and their applicability in specific settings;
• efficiency and effectiveness of various MAR techniques;
• importance of water quality and mixing of different water types when applying MAR techniques;
• Southern African legislative processes involved with implementing MAR;
• monitoring and sustainability of MAR techniques implemented in Southern Africa; and,
• lessons learned in Southern Africa regarding implementation of MAR.

This section, Section 3, presents MAR to the Atlantis Aquifer.