- Title
- How to understand environmental water quality in water resources management
- Creator
- Palmer, Carolyn G
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437951
- Identifier
- vital:73424
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1 4312-0992-7
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/SP%20124-18%20web.pdf
- Description
- We all depend on water for life, well-being and economic prosperity. In our homes water is used for drinking, cooking and washing. In our workplaces water is used for agriculture and industry. Water provides for recreation and our need for natural beauty, and it can be part of our spiritual awareness. Water is so important and is used in so many ways that if it is overused, we risk damaging our very life source. This happens when we take too much water out of aquatic ecosystems, and put in too much waste. The South African National Water Act (NWA) (No. 36 of 1998) rec-ognises that water resources are part of the integrated water cycle made up of wa-ter ecosystems– rivers, wetlands, lakes, dams, estuaries and groundwater – and the processes of precipitation, transpiration, infiltration and evaporation. Closely con-nected to the water cycle is the use that people make of water resources. The NWA promotes protection of water resources so that people can use water both now and into the future. Water is at the heart of “a better life for all”. This handbook focuses on environmental water quality (EWQ), in particular the use of water resources for waste disposal, and the effect that waste disposal has on ecosystems. The term wa-ter quality is used to describe the microbial, physical, chemical and radiological properties of water. These properties affect both ecosystem health and the “fitness for use” of the water.
- Format
- 66 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Palmer, CG, (2018) How to understand environmental water quality in water resources management. WRC Report. Water Research Commission, Pretoria, South Africa
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- Rights
- 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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