Local knowledge can help reduce the impacts of future disasters.🌧️ Flooding isn't new for South Africa. In April 2022 KwaZulu-Natal was struck by major floods which took hundreds of lives, and during March and April 2023, seven of South Africa's nine provinces suffered major flood events. Now, the Western Cape is battling severe floods, with poorer communities living in informal settlements bearing the brunt of the devastation. By drawing on local experiences and integrating community knowledge into flood management strategies, authorities could mitigate these impacts. Local insights can pave the way for a safer, drier future. Read the full story ➡️ https://ow.ly/vlX550SyQsR #WesternCapeFloods
Tapping into local knowledge is one of the very first things we do at AEM during the discovery phase, long before we start designing a flood warning system. Then again, we also strongly agree with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) that risk knowledge is (and should be) the first principle of all natural hazard early warning systems.
In contrary , we involve foreign consultants in the project who don’t understand local insights and community knowledge?
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3wIts not the local/community knowledge going to help in flood management. Instead, Here is where the actual science is required which is not there in understanding the basics of water and Experts call it as "Knowledge Gap". The basic of Water and Groundwater formation in this planet is conceptualized under assumptions and mathematical calculations only from 1982 onward. Before that there is no data. Since no one is aware of the actual science behind these two, no one is ready to move forward in managing the flood because it is not written anywhere and no one is aware about that. Till today, we all know only the visible part of water and accordingly we had developed our understanding and knowledge. There is another part behind the water which is the invisible part quoted under "Knowledge Gap". I had cracked the invisible part, connected the natural science and redefined the basics of Water and Groundwater from its Evolutionary origin or day-1 in this planet, brought out the second invisible water cycle and completed the water cycle, found the permanent solution for flood & drought management, framed the action plan for Groundwater operation under Groundwater Revolution, published them as Research Article and Book Chapter.