Whether you're discharging effluent under a water-use licence or assuring potable and process quality, the regulator's question is the same: what quality, and can you prove it? addanode handles water quality monitoring continuously, alerts you the moment a parameter drifts — so a water safety problem or water pollution risk is caught before it leaves site — and generates the reports DWS and your auditors expect.
Water sensors for pH, turbidity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, COD, TDS and temperature — for potable, process and effluent water.
Threshold alerts to WhatsApp or email the moment a parameter moves out of range — act before a breach becomes a reportable incident.
Continuous logging of your licence parameters with automated, audit-ready reports — defensible and exportable.
Resilient by design: edge buffering keeps a continuous quality record through load shedding, so an outage never leaves a gap in your compliance data.
Regulatory references are for orientation; confirm current requirements against your water-use licence, the latest DWS guidance and your appointed advisers.
Effluent released to a river, wetland or land sits under the National Water Act and your DWS water-use licence, with final-effluent limits set to protect the receiving water. That's the regime this page and our effluent & DWS compliance guide cover.
Process effluent piped to the municipal sewer is governed by the local authority's bylaw and your trade-effluent permit, and billed on volume and COD load. See trade-effluent monitoring — many sites are under both regimes at once.
Regulators see the same data from the other side: continuous, independent catchment telemetry underpins regulatory & catchment oversight.
High, variable organic load — COD, fats/oils/grease and pH swings from CIP and process water are the parameters that breach permits and choke sewers. Continuous COD and pH at the discharge catch a shock load before it leaves site.
Process, dewatering and decant water carry conductivity/TDS, pH and metals risk, often under a strict water-use licence. Continuous quality at discharge and decant points proves the number and warns before a drift.
pH, conductivity, temperature and specific substances dominate, with sudden acid/caustic excursions the main risk. Thresholds set inside the limit turn a drift into an alert and a diversion, not an incident.
Turbidity, chlorine residual and pH protect drinking-water safety against SANS 241 (the standard scored in Blue Drop audits); final-effluent quality and DO protect the river. Tie into treatment-plant monitoring for the full process picture.
For what to measure and how to automate reporting, see our effluent & DWS compliance guide.
Continuous quality on one screen: the parameters in your licence as live values with limits, trended, with the record table an inspector can be shown. The example below is a demonstration line; a licence dashboard carries pH, turbidity, conductivity, chlorine or COD surrogate in the same layout, with the compliance export behind it.
Tell us your licence parameters or quality concern. We'll scope the sensors and the compliance dashboard, and set alerts that warn you before a breach.