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| Resource Quality Services:
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RQS is a directorate in the Water Resource Information Management
chief directorate
under the Policy and Regulation Branch
of the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry.
Formerly, RQS was known as
the Institute for Water Quality Studies (1994-2003) and
the Hydrological Research Institute (1972-1994).
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| Purpose of RQS:
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To provide the national water resource management
function with resource quality and technical information,
guidelines and procedures necessary to address the strategic and
operational requirements for the protection and assessment of
water resource quality.
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| Water quality analysis:
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Note that our laboratories only process samples related to the national monitoring programmes.
To look for private laboratories, please try this search:
"water analysis south africa -rqs".
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| HRI-IWQS-RQS: three decades |
| This directorate officially opened as
the Hydrological Research Institute
on 20 October 1972. Read more
here. |
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