Generation of New Ecotoxicity Data for Salts Using Indigenous South African Freshwater Macroinvertebrate: Updating the National Salts Toxicity Database

Mensah, Paul K; Mgaba, Ntombekhaya; Griffin, Neil J; Odume, Oghenekaro N; Palmer, Carolyn G

Title: Generation of New Ecotoxicity Data for Salts Using Indigenous South African Freshwater Macroinvertebrate: Updating the National Salts Toxicity Database
Creator: Mensah, Paul K
Creator: Mgaba, Ntombekhaya
Creator: Griffin, Neil J
Creator: Odume, Oghenekaro N
Creator: Palmer, Carolyn G
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2016
Date: 2016
Type: text
Type: report
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437854
Identifier: vital:73417
Identifier: ISBN 978-1-4312-0747-3
Identifier: https://wrcwebsite.azurewebsites.net/wp-content/uploads/mdocs/KV%20353.pdf
Description: Scherman and Palmer (2013) reviewed the historical and current trends of Environmental Water Quality (EWQ) in South Africa. Based on the review, they identified research gaps for which they proposed a co-ordinated set of projects that need to be commissioned and executed to fill these gaps. These co-ordinated set of projects include update of TEACHA (Tool for Ecological Aquatic Chemical Habitat Assessment); update of the national salt toxicity database; integration of Resource Directed Measures (RDM) components (ie Ecological Reserve, Re-source Quality Objectives (RQOs) and Classification); integrating water quality and quantity; evaluation of the RDM participatory process based on research and current understandings of complex social-ecological systems and ecosystem services; and integrating RDM and SDC (Source Direct Control) to ensure coherent link between the two. The overarching aim of the above set of projects is to support implementa-tion of the National Water Resource Strategy 2 (NWRS2). Therefore, the main objective of this project to contribute to addressing the second research gap listed above (ie updating the national salt toxicity data-base). Noting that the database contains only data on single salts with nothing on salt mixtures, the project also generated binary salt mixtures data for the database, in addition to generating data for single salts.
Format: 107 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Water Research Commission
Language: English
Relation: Mensah, P.K., Mgaba, N., Griffin, N., Odume, O.N. and Palmer, C.G., 2016. Generation of New Ecotoxicity Data for Salts Using Indigenous South African Freshwater Macroinvertebrate: Updating the National Salts Toxicity Database: Report to the Water Research Commission
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