Datasets
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An inorganic water chemistry dataset (1972–2011) of rivers, dams and lakes in...
The dataset comprised a national collection of inorganic surface‑water chemistry data for rivers, dams and lakes across South Africa. It contained more than 500 000 complete... -
Crop Growth and FAO Parameters for the Soil Water Balance (SWB) Model (WRC 75...
This dataset comprised crop parameter data harvested from WRC Report 753/1/99, which facilitated irrigation scheduling by means of the Soil Water Balance (SWB) model. The data... -
Streamflow reduction tables for commercial afforestation in South Africa, wit...
This dataset contained the national streamflow reduction (SFR) tables for commercial afforestation and the research catchment data used to verify them, harvested from WRC Report... -
Soil hydrological parameter map for South Africa
Hydrologically parameterised soil information developed by Prof R.E. Schulze and collaborators for use in the ACRU agro‑hydrological modelling system, derived from South... -
SCS design flood parameters for southern Africa: 712 climatic zones, soil gro...
This dataset was harvested from WRC Report TT 31/87, which adapted the United States Soil Conservation Service (SCS) method for estimating storm runoff volume and peak discharge... -
Citrus orchard water use, transpiration crop coefficients and orchard data, S...
This dataset was harvested from WRC Report No. TT 772/2/18 (Volume 2 of WRC Project K5/2275), in which Citrus Research International, the University of Pretoria and the CSIR... -
Water Footprint and Resource Management in the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro Basin, Moun...
Researchers estimated blue and green water availability and consumption for various land uses in the Upper Ewaso Ng'iro Basin using water footprint accounting. The study used a... -
Model for downscaling and validating GLDAS groundwater storage anomalies
This dataset underpins a framework for statistically downscaling GLDAS‑2.2 groundwater storage anomalies (GWSA) from a coarse 0.25° spatial resolution to a finer 0.05°... -
Water Use Efficiency of Selected Irrigated Crops Determined with Satellite Im...
This dataset comprised field-level data harvested from WRC Report TT 602/14, which assessed the water use and water use efficiency of irrigated sugarcane and maize using... -
WAVES vegetation parameter sets for 21 South African vegetation types (WRC Re...
This dataset was harvested from WRC Report No. 1319/1/08, which developed and tested simplified models of vegetation water use for a wide range of South African vegetation... -
Monthly irrigation, ETa, surface flux and groundwater storage change: Steenko...
A set of remotely sensed and derived monthly data products was compiled and analysed for the Steenkoppies Dolomitic Compartment (South Africa) to enable near real-time... -
Incorporating Environmental Fate Models into Risk Assessment for Pesticide Re...
The dataset was generated to support the incorporation of environmental fate and transport modelling into the risk assessment process for pesticide registration in South Africa.... -
Fluoride in groundwater and rocks, Mogwase and eastern North West region, 199...
This dataset contains groundwater chemistry data collected for WRC project K5/526, which investigated the distribution of fluoride-rich groundwater in the Mogwase and eastern... -
DWS Water Resource Monitoring Sites: Google Earth KML Spatial Inventory
This dataset comprised a national spatial inventory of South African water resource monitoring sites made available through Google Earth using Keyhole Markup Language (KML). The... -
Green Drop Reports 2009-2025: South African Municipal Wastewater Management P...
This collection of reports brings together the Green Drop Certification reports published by the Department of Water Affairs, later the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS),... -
Blue Drop Reports 2010-2023: South African Municipal Drinking Water Quality M...
This collection of reports brings together the Blue Drop Certification reports published by the Department of Water Affairs, later the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS),... -
South African rivers
ZIP file for South African rivers in drainage region ALL created on 2012-04-16 - 08:06:57 by the Resource Quality Services directorate of the Department of Water Affairs. This... -
MapWAPS Invasive Alien Plant map for the Olifants-Doring Catchments
This dataset was generated as part of the MapWAPS project (Mapping Woody invasive Alien Plant Species), funded by the Water Research Commission (WRC) and launched on 1 April... -
Water Footprint Accounting for Fruit and Vegetable Crops in South Africa
This research project investigated water footprint (WF) metrics for important fruit and vegetable crops in South Africa. The study explored various WF assessment methodologies,... -
Managing Agricultural Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution: Field to Catchment S...
This research project investigated nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) dynamics in arable fields to determine the pollution potential of different South African cropping systems.... -
Feasibility study on irrigation for long-term acid mine water management in t...
This dataset was generated as part of a feasibility study investigating irrigation as a long-term acid mine water management strategy in the Vaal Basin, South Africa. -
Citizen science water quality test kit dataset
This dataset forms part of a current WRC project (2024/2025-01596) to assemble and test a simple water quality test kit that can measure EC, temperature, nitrate, phosphate, pH... -
Contaminants of Emerging Concern in South African water resources Knowledge H...
The dataset was generated as part of the establishment of a national Knowledge Hub for contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in South African water resources. It was produced... -
Earth observation mapping of irrigated areas and water use in South Africa
This dataset was produced to quantify the spatial extent of irrigated agriculture and the consumptive water use of irrigated crops across South Africa for the period 1 August... -
Risk Based, Site-Specific, Irrigation Water Quality Decision Support System
This software-based decision support system (DSS) that provides generic and site-specific, risk-based irrigation water quality guidelines for South Africa. The work had been...