admin Cheroline Ripunda, the 29 years-old Namibian researcher at the University of Stellenbosch in SA, started working with multiple departments to fight with the water crisis of South Africa while working to conserve water at the schools of the province.
This is the part of SmartWaterMeterChallenge campaign which was given birth in hindsight of the fact that African Nations are suffering from a shortage of water. Under this challenge, there is a focus on real-time water usage statistics to save both money and water for the schools.
Her thesis has been implemented in more than 258 schools across Western Cape Province for saving water and 93 companies have pledged on the date this article is being written.
She has her Masters in Electronic Engineering with a focus on water demand management in schools.
“As a country, we need to reduce our water usage sooner rather than later,” she told Youth Corner. She belongs to Namibia, one of the driest countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and says that Namibia’s water problems are increasing at an alarming rate as water is a fragile resource of the country.
In her research, she is supervised by Associate Professor Thinus Booysen who has asked her to take the project and is helping her in any and every roadblock.
“After realising how the sprinklers were working at the Stellenbosch Primary School where study pilots were conducted, we needed to find out the quantity of water the school was using so a Dropula device was put to monitor this and that’s where the shock came in, the school was using way more water than they needed,” Ripunda revealed to Youth Corner.
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