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Groundwater monitoring data following 2016-2017 extreme rainfall and floods in the Gaborone catchment, Upper Limpopo basin, Botswana

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

The dataset contains borehole groundwater levels and physico-chemical parameters for the period May 2017 to June 2018 including; (1) near-monthly measurements of water table depth, groundwater temperature, pH, electrical conductivity and total dissolved solids obtained from manual sampling of 22 boreholes; and (2) higher temporal resolution (5-min time-step) timeseries of water table depth, groundwater temperature and electrical conductivity obtained from automatic dataloggers in 3 of the abovementioned boreholes. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/40a80d95-5a8a-4586-aa24-d6c87f9968b6

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
40a80d95-5a8a-4586-aa24-d6c87f9968b6
Extent (Latitude)
-24.677° to -25.296°
Extent (Longitude)
25.25° to 25.981°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2021-09-07
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Petros, A., Comte, J.-. (2021). Groundwater monitoring data following 2016-2017 extreme rainfall and floods in the Gaborone catchment, Upper Limpopo basin, Botswana. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/40a80d95-5a8a-4586-aa24-d6c87f9968b6
Responsible party
Botswana Department of Water and Sanitation (author); (author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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