Resource Quality Services
RQS is a directorate in the Water
Resource Information Management chief
directorate under the Policy and
Regulation Branch of the Department
of Water Affairs.
 Purpose of RQS
RQS provides national water
resource managers with aquatic
resource data, technical
information, guidelines and
procedures that support the
strategic and operational
requirements for assessment and
protection of water resource
quality.
Functioning aquatic ecosystems and an adequate supply of usable water
are fundamental to the survival and development of any nation, and particularly so
for water-stressed countries like South Africa.
Water quality
results
The national monitoring programmes
mostly monitor "raw" surface water quality
in rivers and dams and produce
long-term trend reports and visualisations of, for example,
chemistry,
eutrophication and
microbiology.
For more information on other types of water quality information, such
as municipal water supply and sewage, please follow the links on
our Reports page.
Water quality
analysis
Note that our laboratories only
process samples registered on the
national monitoring database. To
look for private laboratories, please
try this search:
water analysis south africa -rqs
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National programmes
Water Management System (WMS) water quality database
Chemical monitoring (NCMP)
Eutrophication monitoring (NEMP)
Toxic Algae
Microbiological monitoring (NMMP)
Aquatic Ecosystem Health Monitoring (NAEHMP)
River Health Programme (RHP)
Toxicity Monitoring (NTMP)
Strategic Framework for Monitoring and Assessment of Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Health
HRI-IWQS-RQS: 4 decades
This directorate officially opened as the Hydrological Research Institute
on 20 October 1972. In 1994 it became the Institute for Water Quality Studies and in 2003, RQS.
Read more here.
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