Ensuring safe, clean water isn’t just a regulatory checkbox—it’s essential for health, ecosystems, and sustainable development. That’s why Environmental Compliance Water Testing is increasingly critical: it verifies whether water—whether for drinking, recreation, agriculture, or industrial use—meets established standards. Talbot Water’s new Environmental Testing & Compliance Suites are designed to provide exactly that assurance. In this article, we’ll explore how these comprehensive testing suites work, the standards they align with, and why such rigorous environmental compliance water testing is more important than ever.
Water
- SANS 241 Water testing for domestic consumption
- Recreational water use and water quality
- Dialysis water quality
Bottled and Packaged Water
- Annual treated and packaged water monitoring, BP-RQ-183 & 184
- 1657 Bottled Water for Domestic Consumption
- GNR718 Bottle Labeling Requirements, Packaged Water
Marine
- Benthic surveys
Agricultural
- Livestock watering quality
- Poultry watering quality
- Irrigation water quality guidelines
- Irrigation GAP analysis (Good Agricultural Practice)
Wastewater
- General Authorisation for wastewater and storm water
- Trade effluent discharge to sea outfall
- Effluent discharge to water resource
- Trade effluent discharge to sewer
- Reverse Osmosis Plant quality
Soil, Sludge and waste
- Sludge use or disposal – characterisation for agricultural use or disposal
- Norms and standards for the Remediation of Contaminated Land, Soil Screening Values, SSV
- Waste classification, Assessment & SDS compilation for disposal to landfill, GNR 634, 635 & GHS
Screening
- Talbot quick scan – Qualitative screening analysis
- Talbot broad scan – Quantitative screening analysis