The IWR staff has a unique range of skills which enable them to address the complexity of the multiple use of freshwater resources. The professional staff are trained in Hydrology, River Ecology and Aquatic Biology. The institute is also fortunate to have a number of secretarial and technical support staff to assist with administration, computer programming, field and office data collection and processing.

Current projects include

• Hydrology
  • A stakeholder-driven process to develop a more equitable and sustainable water resource management plan
  • Various developments and applications of the SPATSIM software system
  • Rainfall-Runoff
  • Modelling uncertainty and reliability for water resource assessment in South Africa (MURRA)
• Environmental Water Quality
  
  • Investigating the multiple risk dimensions associated with Campylobacteriosis – a key poverty-related disease of South African urban source water environments (EDCTP)
  • Invertebrates DB
  • South African Water Quality Guidelines for Freshwater Ecosystems - Version 2
  • Investigation of the occurrence and risk of infection of pathogenic and antibiotic resistant campylobacter species in selected source waters within the Kowie catchment
  • An integrated approach to timely detection and prevention of waterborne zoonoses outbreak in selected municipalities of the Eastern Cape, South Africa
  • Applying an integrated environment, animal and human disease surveillance for early detection and prevention of bacterial zoonoses from a selected source water in the Eastern Cape
  • Assessing the impact of different pollution sources on the type of microplastics, associated microbial communities, anti-microbial resistance and transport of microplastics in selected urban rivers in South Africa
  • Cyanobacteria - the missing link it vibriosis spread
  • Revision of the 1996 South African Water Quality Guidelines: Development of risk-based approach using aquatic ecosystems responses
  • Developing long and short term technical solutions, mitigation measures and decision support strategies that will improve water quality in the Grootdraai Dam catchment
  • Water quality modelling and scenario analysis of the Leeuspruit River in support of the G4 closure process of Sigma Colliery
• Adaptive Water Resource Management
  • SDG-pathfinding: co-creating pathways to sustainable development in Africa (SDG-pathfinding)
  • Cannabis Water Usage
  • African Water Resource Mobility Network (AWaRMN)
  • Exploring rangeland integrity to support ecosystem-based livelihoods in the Eastern Cape
  • Governance and institutional arrangement for accelerating equity in the water-land-agricultural nexus
  • Equity dimension of the Nelson Mandela Bay water crisis and the implementing context as enabler or barrier for uptake of translatable lessons from the Cape Town water crisis

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