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PROFILE: Integrating Stressor and Response Monitoring into a Resource-Based Water-Quality Assessment Framework

ROUX1, KEMPSTER, KLEYNHANS

  • 1Division of Water, Environment and Forestry Technology PO Box 395 Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

Environmental Management
|December 16, 1998
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South Africa

Area of Science:

  • Environmental Science
  • Water Resource Management
  • Ecology

Background:

  • South African water law and policies are under review, emphasizing sustainable development and ecological protection.
  • Current water quality management relies on stressor monitoring and pollution regulation, with limitations.
  • The concept of assimilative capacity, central to current approaches, has inherent weaknesses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the limitations of traditional water quality management strategies based on assimilative capacity.
  • To propose response monitoring as a superior approach for water resource management.
  • To integrate ecological condition and change monitoring into South Africa's water management framework.

Main Methods:

  • Critically analyze the weaknesses of assimilative capacity in water management.

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  • Introduce and explain the principles of response monitoring.
  • Propose a framework using biological criteria and impairment standards.

    • Main Results:

    • Assimilative capacity-based management is insufficient for sustainable water resource protection.
    • Response monitoring offers a robust method to quantify ecological condition and change.
    • Biological criteria and standards can effectively guide water management decisions.

    Conclusions:

    • Response monitoring is essential for protecting ecosystem resilience and sustainability.
    • Shifting from stressor monitoring to response monitoring is crucial for effective water resource management.
    • Implementing biological criteria will enhance the protection of South Africa's water resources.