Current Projects
The IWR staff has a unique range of skills which enable them to address the complexity of the multiple use of freshwater resources. The institute is also fortunate to have a number of secretarial and technical support staff to assist with administration, computer programming, field and office data collection and processing.
Current projects (aligned to research themes)include
- Tackling Watershed Pollution and Biodiversity Loss
- Enhancing a platform for practical water management and implementation of the waste discharge charge system in South Africa.(WQSAM)
- Invertebrates DB
- South African Water Quality Guidelines for Freshwater Ecosystems - Version 2
- Assessing the impact of different pollution sources on the type of microplastics, associated microbial communities, anti-microbial resistance and transport of microplastics in selected urban rivers in South Africa
- Water quality modelling and scenario analysis of the Leeuspruit River in support of the G4 closure process of Sigma Colliery
- Improving Water Services for Equitable and Socially Just Outcomes
- Governance and institutional arrangement for accelerating equity in the water-land-agricultural nexus
- Update on Rhodes University (RU) Supplemental Water Supply Project
- Equity dimension of the Nelson Mandela Bay water crisis and the implementing context as enabler or barrier for uptake of translatable lessons from the Cape Town water crisis
- Assessing the commercialization potential of the former Transkei’s land and water resources through an integrated water-land-agricultural nexus in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa.
- Improving Catchment Resilience to Risks and Hazards
- Nature-based Solutions for African resilience (NbS4AfrRes)
- An integrated approach to timely detection and prevention of waterborne zoonoses outbreak in selected municipalities of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Applying an integrated environment, animal and human disease surveillance for early detection and prevention of bacterial zoonoses from a selected source water in the Eastern Cape
- Water for Food, Public Health and the Environment
- Data, Tools and Models for Better Decision Making
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