Brochures and fact sheets

	Focus on CSIR research in Biotoxicity Testing Toxicity tests are important tools to assess water pollution problems. The CSIR’s laboratories in Pretoria and Stellenbosch have the facilities to test for human-induced pollution, using a comprehensive array of bioassays.
	Focus on CSIR research in Water Resources The CSIR responds to the challenges in the water sector through integrated, directed R&D of solutions in partnership with clients and collaborators. The research focuses on the assessment and management of water resources to ensure an optimal supply of quality water to users, while ensuring the integrity of the resource base.
	Aquifer Dependent Ecosystems This fact sheet provides information on Aquifer Dependent Ecosystems.
	Aquifer Vulnerability Assessments and Protocols (AVAP) This fact sheet provides information on improved methods for Aquifer Vulnerability Assessments and Protocols (AVAP) for producing vulnerability maps, taking into account information on soils.
	Modelling complex biophysical processes associated with diseases This fact sheet provides information about a case study: The ecology of Vibrio cholerae in the Mozambican channel.
	Conservation planning for river and estuarine biodiversity This fact sheet provides information about conservation planning for river and estuarine biodiversity in the Fishto-Tsitsikamma water management area.
	Antimicrobial Properties of Copper and its Effects on Microorganisms in Drinking Water Distribution Systems This fact sheet provides information about a study to assess the antimicrobial performance of copper at concentrations typically permitted in drinking water.
	Cross-sector policy objectives for conserving South Africa’s inland water biodiversity The purpose of this paper is to support the development of shared policy objectives and guiding principles to promote the practical conservation of inland water biodiversity across multiple sectors and spheres of government.
	ECO2 – Sharing benefits from water resources The CSIR has developed an approach to give affect to the three pillars of the National Water Act, being equity, efficiency and sustainability.
	Ecosystem Governance Investigations by the CSIR into possible reasons for nonimplementation of legislation and government tools reveal the pivotal role of governance issues.
	CSIR’S environmental human health risk assessment The CSIR Health Risk Assessment team has been involved in numerous risk assessments over the last decade.
	Water and Human Health Research in CSIR The Water and Human Health Group researches water related science to address the CSIR’s mandate, national priorities and to improve quality of life for all.
	Groundwater resistivity Resistivity is a non-invasive geophysical method that can be used to provide additional information on the subsurface. This can then lead to cost-effective answers to geological questions.
	Managed Aquifer Recharge on the West Coast north of Cape Town, South Africa The CSIR is proud to provide the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality with a specialist advisory service in regard to the optimum and sustainable utilisation of the Atlantis Water Resource Management Scheme.
	Inter-SEDE: A New Tool for Interrogating Transboundary Basins The CSIR contributed to an investigation which addressed cooperation and conflict in trans-boundary basins, and also the potential for benefit-sharing (as opposed to the volumetric allocation of trans-boundary waters).
	Mine Closure Strategy Project and Governance South Africa is fundamentally constrained by water availability, with future economic development and hence political and social stability dependent on this. Understanding water, or doing better things with our limited water, is therefore taken very seriously by the CSIR.
	CSIR Groundwater Group research into Mine Closure Strategies The CSIR Groundwater Group is currently working on innovative ways of managing the impact of mine closure, in particular the decant of polluted mine water.
	Planning and policy for the systematic conservation of freshwater biodiversity Systematic conservation planning is an applied branch of conservation biology that seeks to identify spatially explicit options for the conservation of biodiversity.
	Resource-Directed Management of Water Quality Series The CSIR developed the Resource Directed Management of Water Quality (RDMWQ) Series which provides policy, strategy and management instruments to facilitate the management of water quality from a water resource perspective.
	The South African River Health Programme Information provided by the River Health Programme (RHP) helps water resource managers to understand how these aquatic ecosystems function and respond to multiple stressors and to subsequently make informed decisions that would ensure sustainable use of these resources.
	South african national spatial biodiversity assessment 2004 Technical report volume 2: river component This report forms the river component of the National Spatial Biodiversity Assessment, which focuses on spatial conservation assessments for South Africa’s terrestrial, river, marine, estuarine and wetland ecosystems.
	South African Mercury Assessment (SAMA) Programme The SAMA Programme aims to develop a framework for Mercury research in South Africa.
	Safe Drinking Water from the Sun The Water for Health group at the CSIR will represent South Africa in an international project to demonstrate solar disinfection (SODIS) of drinking water. This project is set to demonstrate that SODIS is an effective, appropriate and acceptable intervention against waterborne diseases.
	Water Resource Governance Systems CSIR research in Water Resource Governance Systems focuses on areas of policy, governance, water resource planning and management and social-ecological systems.
	Added Water Related Diarrhoeal Burden due to HIV/AIDS The CSIR recently started with a study on the burden of diarrhoeal disease. The study aims to determine the number of people suffering from diarrhoea due to a lack of access to improved water sources.
	Water Resource Governance - Research Framework to guide research in Water Resource Governance. While this Framework is designed to meet the strategic objectives of the South African Government (ASGISA2), it is also closely aligned with the international water resource governance priorities of NEPAD and the UNDP's Millennium Development Goals, and is therefore applicable to Africa as a whole.