Student Number : 0107471X -
MSc research report -
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering -
Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment / Water plays a global role in an enormous variety of ways. More importantely it
also plays a fundamental role on a regional and local scales where it has a
profound effect on the environment and socio economic development. It is a
prerequisite for many of the mans activities and as such it must be managed and
protected accordingly. In this water quality plays a fundamental role and water
quality monitoring is a foundation stone of any serious efforts to manage water
resources on any scale.
The research conducted focused on water quality monitoring in the SADC region.
It looked at the current practice and the gaps present with respect to the real needs
and international best practice.
SADC region is characterized by trans-boundary water systems where pollution of
water resources is often not understood properly nor has been seriously studied. A
regional Water Quality Monitoring Program is advocated to address these issues
and is seen as one of the prerequisites for effective water resources management
in the SADC region.
Existing Water Quality Monitoring in individual countries of the SADC region
has been studied on the basis of existing (limited) information and gaps with
respect to international best practice have been identified. Recommendations have
been made regarding the establishment of the SADC Water Quality Monitoring
program. A set of principles on which this should be based have been formulated.
It has been concluded that SADC countries do not have an appropriate water
quality monitoring in place and that what does exist is not in line with the best
practice recommendations. It is suggested that without an appropriate regional
water quality monitoring program water quality could become one of the limiting
factors of the future economic development in the region.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/1710 |
| Date | 14 November 2006 |
| Creators | Macatsha, Nosimo |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 2233513 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf |
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