- Title
- Critical analysis of environmental water quality in South Africa Historic and current trends
- Creator
- Griffin, Neil J, Palmer, Carolyn G, Scherman, Patricia A
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437812
- Identifier
- vital:73414
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-4312-0536-3
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/2184-1-14.pdf
- Description
- South Africa is widely recognised as having an admirable water law, and as being a leader in granting a right to water, in terms of quality and quantity, to the environment. However, the water quality of South Afri-can water resources is deteriorating (eg CSIR 2010, DWA 2011a), alt-hough good water quality management structures, strategies, ap-proaches, programmes, instruments, and tools have been developed and implemented nationally. The research reported on here provides a review of changes in water quality management structures, pro-grammes and approaches over the past two decades, and highlights areas where these need updating, completion or revision. As a com-parative illustration of changes in water quality with time, changes in 11 water quality parameters in two river systems (the Crocodile River in Mpumalanga, which is moderately impacted, and the Olifants River, in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, which is severely impacted) are presented.
- Format
- 221 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Griffin, N.J., Palmer, C.G. and Scherman, P.A., 2014. Critical analysis of environmental water quality in South Africa: Historic and current trends. Water Res. Comm, 1(5)
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- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Water Research Commission Terms and Conditions of Use Statement (https://www.gov.za/terms-and-conditions-use-0)
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