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       | Archival information. Please see 
			 review, evaluation and optimisation of the national water resources monitoring network
 
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       | "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it" : |  
       | This principle applies as much to water resource management as it applies 
				to managing any other kind of human endeavour.  The need for monitoring and 
				assessment of water quality to be an integral part of water resources 
				management in South Africa is stated explicitly in the 
				National Water Act (Act No. 36 of 1998), which mandates the 
				Minister of Water and Sanitation to establish national 
				monitoring systems that monitor, record, assess and 
				disseminate information on water resources. |  
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       | Working document |  
       | A proposed strategic framework for
				national monitoring programmes, the outline of the final document and
				the scoping document for a long-term strategy for information systems
			  to support integrated water resources management are available:
				select the appropriate links in the left-hand column. |  | 
      
       | Some history: MAIS |  
       | The 
			 
			 MAIS archive. |  
      
       | The Strategic Framework Implementation project team |  
       | Project Information: Brendan Hohls 
			 
			 HohlsB@dwaf.gov.za |  |