Dr. Anthony Turton

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  Published on: 1/1/2006    Last Visited: 5/30/2007  

  Dr Anthony Turton, SERA Water Task Team member, has been elected a director of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) executive board for a period of three years, starting in January 2007.

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  Published on: 9/22/2008    Last Visited: 11/12/2008  

  This is according to Dr Anthony Turton, a senior water researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), who maintains that up to 50 percent of municipalities "do not even have one qualified engineer" on their staff.
  
  Turton cites scientific research to counter the toxic cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae, which is found in most of SA's river and reservoir systems, according to a recent CSIR study, and can cause diarrhoea and vomiting - and even liver damage over time.
  
  "The original work for that was done in the 1980s in massive programmes based at the CSIR," says Turton. "Those programmes generated many PhD graduates, but also did the primary science on which future management will be based.
  
  "Those programmes are no longer in existence and this is a national crisis of note. We need to recover the bits and pieces we can and then develop new national capacity," says Turton.
  
  He says cyanobacteria produce microcystin, a group of toxins with different chemical properties and medical manifestations.
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  Turton says climate change is already having an impact.

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  Published on: 6/9/2009    Last Visited: 6/9/2009  

  "The truth of the matter is that as a nation we don't know how to deal with this problem because it has never happened to us before," said Dr Anthony Turton, a leading water researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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  According to Turton, "This is the source of major concern in the short term, but there are other future worries as mines close down and decant starts to move across to the East Rand."
  
  He fears that the country's energy crisis will exacerbate the problem by forcing smaller mines that cannot absorb the financial losses caused by power outages to close. "If they close prematurely, this process will simply be accelerated like a domino effect and hit us before we have the necessary science in place to inform the policy-making process," he said.
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  "This is a national strategic issue," said Turton.

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  Published on: 7/6/2008    Last Visited: 7/6/2008  

  Dr Anthony Turton, a water-resource expert at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), says the way we treat our water resources needs to be a central part of a big vision for the country, which is just not there at the moment.

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  Published on: 11/26/2008    Last Visited: 11/30/2008  

  Civil society groups and NGOs have launched a petition calling for the immediate reversal of the internationally-acclaimed water researcher Anthony Turton's suspension from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
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  Turton was suspended on Friday for talking to the media after the CSIR withdrew his keynote presentation, Science real and relevant, from its conference in Pretoria a week ago.
  
  The CSIR says it took this step because "certain statements … could not be sufficiently substantiated".
  
  It has come under fire from the Freedom of Expression Institute, Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa, Democratic Alliance and SA National Editors' Forum.
  
  Turton is a participant in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
  
  A fellow Pugwash member, Hans G,nter Brauch, chair of Peace Research and European Security Studies, said he hoped scientific freedom and the freedom of speech prevailed and the suspension was reversed.
  
  He said he was speaking in his personal capacity.

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  Published on: 11/9/2005    Last Visited: 3/13/2008  

  Craig Schultz, Director of Arcus Gibb, with Dr Tony Turton (CSIR), member of the SERA Water task team and the Gibb-SERA Chair in Integrated Water Resource.

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  Published on: 12/1/2006    Last Visited: 1/9/2008  

  Dr. Anthony Turton (South Africa)
  
  Dr Turton has a Doctorate in the strategic management of international rivers in Southern Africa from Pretoria University.An active member of Pugwash, a global association concerned with the responsible use of science that was founded on the manifesto by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell, Dr. Turton specializes in the analysis of hydro-political issues and political risk assessment at the local, national and international level.
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  Dr. Turton works professionally at the interface between science and policy-making and has a specialist interest in transboundary water issues, both surface and aquifer.He is a Research Associate at the London Water Study Group, based at Kings College.He is a founding member and former President of the Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters - a global partnership of universities all specializing in research on transboundary water issues.Dr. Turton is the editor, author and co-author of numerous papers, books and publications.He has participated in international conferences as keynote speaker and various study/working groups on strategic water resource management.A major thrust of his current work is about understanding mine closure as a sub-national transboundary issue in an economy that been historically mining-based.This deals with integrating policy between different government departments, often with different mandates and strategic visions, but all linked in some way via water as either a resource or as an effluent stream.

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  Published on: 11/27/2008    Last Visited: 11/27/2008  

  The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has denied gagging suspended researcher Anthony Turton.
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  Turton was suspended last week after the CSIR stopped him delivering an address on South Africa's water quality at a conference.
  
  Sibisi said the council noted Turton had extended an olive branch, and it was taken in good faith.
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  Sibisi said the CSIR would meet Turton to resolve the matter, possibly as soon as Thursday afternoon.
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  Turton was suspended last week. - Sapa EMAIL STORY EASY PRINT SEARCH NEWSLETTER

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  Dr. Anthony Turton Natural Resource and Environment Unit Fellow
  
  aturton@csir.co.za
  
  Download the Document HERE
  
  This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 at 12:54 pm and is filed under Typical SBG stupidity.

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  Published on: 11/27/2008    Last Visited: 11/30/2008  

  The suspension of water researcher Anthony Turton must be lifted immediately, the SA National Editors' Forum (Sanef) said on Thursday.
  
  "Sanef suspects that the CSIR's action against Turton was motivated by political considerations and an independent inquiry should establish the accuracy or otherwise of this suspicion," read a statement by the editor's body.
  
  It called for the immediate publication by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Turton's paper, the lifting of his suspension and his reinstatement at the institution. This should be followed by an independent investigation into the CSIR's conduct.
  
  Turton was suspended last week after the CSIR ordered him not to deliver a hard-hitting presentation on South Africa's water crisis at a conference in Pretoria. His presentation included a plan to boost the number of scientists in the country and a new funding model for research.
  
  The CSIR said some statements in the paper "could not be sufficiently substantiated".
  
  It said it had launched an investigation after he "elected to engage with the media on the matter of the withdrawal of his presentation ... in contravention of organisational policy".
  
  Sanef condemned the decision to withdraw his presentation "on the flimsiest of excuses".

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