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To contribute to the understanding and sustainable management of water resources in southern Africa |
UCEWQ contributes to this objective specifically through:
- research into the effects of toxicants on aquatic biota and ecosystems,
using biota in aquatic health assessments and integrating the biological response
data with environmental water quality in the application of this research for
water resource management.
- consulting services offered to solve specific problems: using
ecotoxicology, biomonitoring and environmental water quality in ecological risk
assessment and water resource management
- training and teaching at a tertiary level, including the provision of
certificated training courses in environmental water quality
- contributions to national policy development and implementation - putting environmental water quality to work.
