| The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWAF)
is ultimately responsible for the operation
and maintenance of national water quality monitoring and assessment programmes.
In practice, DWAF has devolved much of this responsibility to one of its directorates,
the Institute for Water Quality Studies (IWQS). Early in 1994, the IWQS started a
project to design a national microbiological monitoring programme. IWQS appointed
the CSIR's Environmentek to help with the conceptual design, which was ready by
the end of 1996. Funding provided by the Water Research Commission enabled the
second phase, testing the conceptual design, to begin in 1997. The second phase is
a joint venture between IWQS and CSIR, in close collaboration with Umgeni Water
and Rand Water. Now read on...
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