Datasets
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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.... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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.... -
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°... -
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... -
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...