• Bioremediation of industry effluent in the context of Water Resource Management.
• Development of sediment quality guidelines for South African freshwaters.
• Development of sublethal toxicity test methods (physiological measures; biochemical markers) for indigenous species (invertebrates; algae).
• Application of the above in water quality management (e.g. development of water quality guidelines; resource quality objectives; biomonitoring).
• Refining biomonitoring techniques (e.g. aquatic invertebrate species level identification; diatom and microbial biodiversity).
• Development of site specific biomonitoring and appropriate toxicological technologies for industry (SASOL; Richards Bay Minerals).
• Exploring endocrine disruption in aquatic invertebrates.
• Development of a water quality management plan for Boksburg Lake.
• Research into integrating water quality and quantity in ecological water requirements.

• a Protocol for Acute Toxicity Testing of single substances, using selected riverine invertebrates, in Artificial Stream Systems
• the development of a method for applying toxicity results in ecological Reserve determinations for water quality
• the application of toxicity results in the derivation of a new national salinity effluent standard
• an outline of draft Guidelines for Whole Effluent Toxicity testing
• The production of "Some for all Forever: Water ecosystems and people" WRC handbook
• The production of "Environmental Water Quality in Water Resources Management"WRC Handbook.
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