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	Sites:

	'Top 333' sites:
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	Select from table:
	primary drainage region
	water management area

	Select from map:
	primary drainage region
	water management area

	Hydrological sites:
	rivers
	dams
	climate
	"local"

	Information:

	Help & tutorial

	About the system

	Rivers and catchments in Google Earth format

	Scripts used to generate this site

Resource Quality Services water quality data exploration tool:

Links to supplementary information about water resources and the WMS inventory:

More about the WMS (Water Management System).
What do the water quality numbers mean? Water Quality Guidelines.
Interpreting the data: the National Chemical Monitoring Programme.
Water quality in South Africa: RQS report list.
Flow and volume data for South African water resources from Hydrological Services.
Paper presentation: Using Keyhole Markup Language to create a spatial interface to South African water resource data through Google Earth 1Mb.

( Brochure format 2Mb).

Workshop presentation: Looking at WMS through Google Earth 6Mb.
Video: Water quality mashup in Google earth 17Mb ( Text comments if you are unable to view the video).

For a world view of water quality:

GEMS/Water

For a world view of water flow:

The Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC)

The USGS view of North America in Google Earth: Waterwatch

World natural disaster alerts:

The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System

Please report problems with this page and make suggestions for improvements to: Michael Silberbauer.

Last update of this page 2009-06-09 08:40


	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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