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Resource Quality Monitoring

Aim of Resource Quality Monitoring :

Resource Quality Monitoring includes a number of reporting activities, including the development of guidelines and procedures for the monitoring and assessment of water resource quality. It also involves management of national monitoring programmes, namely the National Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Programme ( NMMP), the National Aquatic Ecosystem Health Monitoring Programme (including the RHP) the National Eutrophication Monitoring Programme (NEMP), the Toxicity Monitoring Programme and the National Chemical Monitoring Programme (NCMP). Other areas of activity include the application of ecotoxicology (ecological risk assessment), and support for the resource directed measures (RDM) office.
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Last update of this page 2009-05-21 12:16

bullet 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

bullet 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.

Roodeplaat Dam and IWQS 2001-05-19