South Australian Drinking Water Quality Performance Results

SA Water operates and monitors drinking water supplies across metropolitan, regional, and remote Aboriginal communities in South Australia. The dataset likely contains over 350,000 annual analytical results from field and laboratory tests, compared against the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (2011). Data is provided by SA Water and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Monitor compliance with national drinking water guidelines based on the described performance results.
• Analyze trends in water quality parameters over time based on the 12-month comparison period mentioned.
• Assess the operational performance of water treatment and distribution systems based on health, aesthetic, and operational parameters.
• Investigate the frequency and nature of guideline exceedances based on the described corrective action protocol.

Strengths

• Data is produced from a large-scale monitoring program generating over 350,000 analytical results annually.
• Laboratory analyses are conducted by the Australian Water Quality Centre (AWQC) under ISO 9001 and NATA requirements.
• Performance is explicitly compared against the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines (2011).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

SA Water

Collection Method

Samples collected by trained field staff and analyzed by the Australian Water Quality Centre (AWQC).

Time Range

Likely includes at least the last 12 months of performance data.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 08 20:48:20.292358; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Metropolitan, regional, and remote Aboriginal communities within South Australia.