{"id":310,"date":"2022-04-11T16:51:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/chapter\/2-2-water-availability-in-southern-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:23:18","slug":"2-2-water-availability-in-southern-africa","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/chapter\/2-2-water-availability-in-southern-africa\/","title":{"raw":"2.2  Water Availability in Southern Africa","rendered":"2.2  Water Availability in Southern Africa"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"2.2-water-availability-in-southern-africa\">\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;\">Water availability in Southern Africa can be illustrated by the rainfall regime, which is generally low and highly variable. Rain falling in intense downpours often runs off into river channels as it falls faster than can be absorbed into the soil where it can recharge groundwater. Many areas, particularly in the south and west, receive very little rain (&lt;\u00a0250\u00a0mm\/year) and are subject to high temperatures and high rates of evaporation. The map below (Figure\u00a01) shows the distribution of average annual rainfall across Southern Africa.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;\"><img class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/image1.png\" alt=\"Map showing the mean annual rainfall distribution across the Southern Africa Development Committee region.\" width=\"931\" height=\"1074\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"import-Normal figcaption-text\"><strong>Figure<\/strong><strong>\u00a01<\/strong><strong>\u00a0-\u00a0<\/strong>Mean annual rainfall distribution across the Southern Africa Development Committee (SADC) region (SADC, 2007).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div class=\"2.2-water-availability-in-southern-africa\">\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;\">Water availability in Southern Africa can be illustrated by the rainfall regime, which is generally low and highly variable. Rain falling in intense downpours often runs off into river channels as it falls faster than can be absorbed into the soil where it can recharge groundwater. Many areas, particularly in the south and west, receive very little rain (&lt;\u00a0250\u00a0mm\/year) and are subject to high temperatures and high rates of evaporation. The map below (Figure\u00a01) shows the distribution of average annual rainfall across Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal\" style=\"text-indent: 0pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2022\/04\/image1.png\" alt=\"Map showing the mean annual rainfall distribution across the Southern Africa Development Committee region.\" width=\"931\" height=\"1074\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"import-Normal figcaption-text\"><strong>Figure<\/strong><strong>\u00a01<\/strong><strong>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Mean annual rainfall distribution across the Southern Africa Development Committee (SADC) region (SADC, 2007).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-310","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":181,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/310\/revisions\/489"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/181"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/310\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.gw-project.org\/managed-aquifer-recharge-southern-africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}