- Title
- Use of indigenous riverine invertebrates in applied toxicology and water resource-quality management
- Creator
- Scherman, Patricia, Palmer, Carolyn G, Muller, Nikite W J
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/438061
- Identifier
- vital:73432
- Identifier
- ISBN 1-86845-962-4
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/955-1-03.pdf
- Description
- The National Water Policy (DWAF, 1997). and the National Water Act (No 36 of 1998)(NWA) provide the legal and management context for the application of results. The law and the policy are founded on the concepts of equity (fairness of access to water and water services) and sustainability (the opportunity to optimally use water resources now and into the future)(NWA, l (l)(xviii)(b)). The concept of sustainability is based on the understanding that on earth water comes packaged in aquatic ecosystems, and that the product, water, is intimately related to and affected by the structure and functioning of these ecosys-tems.(Aquatic ecosystems include rivers, lakes, wetlands, aquifers and estuaries. Impoundments act as artificial lakes connected to river sys-tems.) A key recognition during the development of the policy and the NWA was that" the environment" does not compete with users for re-sources-the environment (in this case aquatic ecosystems) is the re-source. Therefore a key poiicy of DWAF is that vi resource protection in order to achieve sustainable resource use. Resource protection is achieved through the implementation of resource directed measures (RDM) and source directed controls (SDC).
- Format
- 171 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Scherman, P.A., Palmer, C.G. and Muller, W.J., 2003. Use of indigenous riverine invertebrates in applied toxicology and water resource-quality management. Pretoria, South Africa. doi, 1, pp.86845-962
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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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