Water quality monitoring: A practical guide to the design and implementation of freshwater quality studies and monitoring programmes
Edited by J. Bartram and R. Ballance
Freshwater is a finite resource as essential to agriculture and industry as it is to basic human existence. Water quality monitoring is a fundamental tool in the management of freshwater resources.
- a protocol for design and implementation of monitoring surface and groundwater;
- details of sampling and analytical methods;
- guidance on data analysis and presentation.
This book covers the entire monitoring process providing detailed guidance for implementing a monitoring network with step-by-step descriptions of field and laboratory methods. It will be particularly relevant for field use in developing countries and provides:
This book brings together information on proven methods and will be useful for anyone concerned with water quality monitoring with a scientific, managerial or engineering background, including field staff. An overview of the principles underlying hydrological, chemical, biological and sediment measurements together with their importance and relevance to water quality monitoring is also included.
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Table of contents, foreword, acknowledgments
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Chapter 1 - Introduction
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Chapter 2 - Water quality
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Chapter 3 - Resources for a monitoring programme
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Chapter 4 - Resources for a monitoring programme
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Chapter 5 - Field work and sampling
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Chapter 6 - Field testing methods
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Chapter 7 - Physical and chemical analyses
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Chapter 8 - Advanced instrumental analysis
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Chapter 9 - Analytical quality assurance
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Chapter 10 - Microbiological analyses
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Chapter 11- Biological monitoring
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Chapter 12 - Hydrological measurements
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Chapter 13 - Sediment measurements
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Chapter 14 - Use and reporting of monitoring data
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Appendix 1 - Portable field kits
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Publishing and ordering information
ISBN 0-419-22320-7 (Hbk)
0-419-21730-4 (Pbk)
© 1996 UNEP/WHO
Published on behalf of UNESCO, WHO and UNEP by E&FN Spon
2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, UK.
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Rolling revision of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality
Water quality monitoring is included in the plan of work of the rolling revision of the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality.
Background
The Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality Final Task Force meeting (Geneva, 2003) was informed that the second edition of the text Water Quality Monitoring was being updated. This document is not linked to the Guidelines but is referred to for guidance on analytical quality control, sampling and laboratory aspects. The Final Task Force meeting also noted that the need for substantive guidance on sampling and monitoring (in developing countries) had already been taken into account in this supporting document. In relation to a comment that future tasks related to the Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality should include providing guidance on good laboratory practice in developing countries in routine and in core/central laboratories, it was pointed out that the Water Quality Monitoring book that is currently being prepared deals with this issue. Updating should take account of changes proposed to Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality Volume 3.
Expected end-product(s)
Updated second edition of the book.
Progress to date
Updating of the second edition is progressing.