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National Water Resource Quality Status Report: Inorganic Chemical Water Quality of Surface Water Resources - The Big Picture

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Web Pages of the National Chemical Monitoring Programme
Report files:
Executive summary
Full report
Inorganic Water Quality by Water Management Area:
Graphical interface
Text interface
Inorganic Water Quality at selected "Hot spots":
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National Water Resource Quality Status Report: Inorganic Chemical Water Quality of Surface Water Resources - The Big Picture :

This report provides information on the major inorganic chemical water quality constituents of surface waters across South Africa, for water resource managers, scientists, decision-makers, and the public. It provides an overview of the status of surface chemical water quality according to the water quality requirements of two water user sectors, namely, domestic water use and irrigated agriculture water use.

Please select one of the links on the left to find out more.


NCMP Information processing
Excel spreadsheet for Maucha symbol
SQL code for WMS
Perl script wms2wmrq.pl
awk script wmq2info.awk
Percentile AML meaner.aml
Graphing AML barcode.aml
ArcView scripts for ArcView project
ArcView project (5Mbyte! ZIP - does not include the geographical coverages and water quality data)
Biomonitoring mapping (old Arc Macro Language - AML - script to place site status icons so that they do not overlap)
The NCMP project team
Brendan Hohls Senior author.
Michael Silberbauer Data processing.
Anneli Kühn Management.
Phillip Kempster Scientific advisor.
Carin van Ginkel Eutrophication data.
Esper Ncube Contributor.
Noxolo Ncapayi Contributor.
Ariel Mafejane Contributor.
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