Make compliance a dashboard and an export — not a monthly scramble.
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.
Continuous quality, automated compliance.
Quality parameters
Water sensors for pH, turbidity, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, COD, TDS and temperature — for potable, process and effluent water.
Breach alerts
Threshold alerts to WhatsApp or email the moment a parameter moves out of range — act before a breach becomes a reportable incident.
DWS reporting
Continuous logging of your licence parameters with automated, audit-ready reports — defensible and exportable.
Monitor the parameters in your licence — continuously.
- Start from your water-use licence — the parameters and limits you're held to define what we measure and how often.
- Sense at the right points — intake, treatment, process and discharge — integrated with instruments you already have wherever possible, and tied into water treatment plant monitoring where chemical dosing and process quality need watching.
- Alert before the limit — thresholds set inside the licence limit so you act on drift, not on a breach.
- Automate the report — the logs become the DWS submission, so compliance is an export, not a manual monthly exercise.
- One platform — quality sits with quantity, non-revenue water and the rest of your operation on the addaNet platform.
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.
Discharge to a river and discharge to the sewer are governed differently.
To the environment → DWS licence
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.
To the municipal sewer → trade-effluent permit
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.
What "water quality" means depends on what you make.
Food, beverage & abattoirs
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.
Mining & minerals
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.
Chemical & manufacturing
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.
Municipal & potable
Turbidity, chlorine residual and pH protect drinking-water safety against SANS 241; final-effluent quality and DO protect the river. Tie into treatment-plant monitoring for the full process picture.
Quality & compliance questions.
For what to measure and how to automate reporting, see our effluent & DWS compliance guide.
Prove your water quality — automatically.
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.