Conceptual design report for a national river water quality assessment programme

Abstract

This project was undertaken to address the need for reliable water quality information on which to base management decisions. The original motivation for the project noted that "water quality monitoring is becoming a larger and more important part of assessment of the impact of man on the environment, the development and management of water resources and the regulation of water quality." The cost of water quality monitoring is high and when data is collected, but not used, the ratio of cost to benefits obtained is unacceptable. AIMS The aim of the project was to make available and increase the reliability of water quality information for different water resources development, regulatory and research objectives by: 1. Developing cost-effective and practical monitoring strategies to satisfy the information requirements, and 2. Developing procedures for interpreting (analysing) water quality data in such a way as to provide reliable information on which to base decisions.

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