- Title
- Applied aquatic ecotoxicology sub-lethal methods, whole effluent testing and communication
- Creator
- Palmer, Carolyn G
- Creator
- Muller, Nikite W J
- Creator
- Davies-Coleman, Heather D
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2004
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- text
- Type
- report
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437785
- Identifier
- vital:73409
- Identifier
- ISBN 1-77005-252-6
- Identifier
- https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/1245-1-041.pdf
- Description
- This report is the most recent in a series of WRC reports on the development of the capacity to undertake ecotoxicological research in South Africa. The development followed the following tines: • Recognition, as a result of the Kruger National Park Rivers Research Programme, that there were virtually no data on the water quality requirements of South African macroin vertebrates. • Development of the capacity to undertake experimental tolerance testing using riverine invertebrates in artificial stream systems. • Investigation of the salt tolerances, and whole effluent toxicity responses, of both standard toxicity test taxa and South African macroinverte-brates. • Development of both lethal and sub-lethal measures. • Application of re-search results to the development of methods for water quality within ecological Reserve determinations, and the implementation of the National Water Act (NWA) (No 36. of 1998) and National Water Resource Strategy (NWRS). The WRC is com-mitted to funding research that underpins the implementation of the NWA and the NWRS. Over the past 12 years it became clear that there would not be a rapid up-take of ecotoxicology research results in South Africa, and that it was important to place ecotoxicology in the wider context of water quality. From this recognition, the concept of Environmental Water Quality evolved.
- Format
- 73 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Water Research Commission
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Palmer, C.G., Muller, N.W.J and Coleman, H.D., 2004. Applied aquatic ecotoxicology: sub-lethal methods, whole effluent testing and communication. Water Research Commission Report, 1245(1), p.04
- Rights
- Publisher
- Rights
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