- Title
- The use of Daphnia spp. and indigenous river invertebrates in whole effluent toxicity testing in the Vaal Catchment.
- Creator
- Muller, Nikite W J, Palmer, Carolyn G
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2002
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438048
- Identifier
- vital:73431
- Identifier
- ISBN 1 86845 855 5
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/815-1-02.pdf
- Description
- Freshwater is vital to societal, and environmental, well-being and any changes in the distribution, abundance and quality of water resources and ecosystems are detrimental to this societal and environmental sus-tainability. Increasing socio-economic activities world-wide have been accompanied by increased pollution stress on the aquatic environment. The need for improved efficiency in water quality management is urgent and immediate and it is important that policy to manage freshwater sys-tems is underpinned by sound science. Strategies to manage receiving water quality have been implemented world-wide and include chemical monitoring, biological monitoring and toxicological assessments, all of which are supported by on-going research. Water quality management in South Africa has come a long way since 1919, when it was first promulgated (Union Health Act 36 of 1919; van der Merwe and Grobler, 1990) but only included sewage effluent. Later amendments broadened water quality management to include effluent discharge from industry, mining and storm-water runoff. However, despite these and uniform, and general, effluent standards (UES), as well as DWAFs recognition of the need for integrated water resource management, water quality in the resources continue to deteriorate (DWAF, 1995; Basson etal 1997).
- Format
- 119 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Muller, W.J. and Palmer, C.G., 2002. The use of Daphnia spp. and indigenous river invertebrates in whole effluent toxicity testing in the Vaal Catchment. Pretoria: Water Research Commission
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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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