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Global strategies

Assessing water quality

Assessing water quality

Monitoring water quality

Context

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities. Agenda 21 recommends that such systems should be established and operated.

Broader

Collecting data on water

Monitoring quality standards

Improving environmental health monitoring

Narrower

Monitoring water related disease transmission

Monitoring water quality threatened by toxic materials storage sites

Expanding monitoring of freshwater quality and quantity

Assessing ecological status of waters

Facilitates

Protecting water quality

Facilitated by

Strengthening education programmes for all water resource staff

Developing appropriate water management technology

Using hydrological data to derive water resource estimates for specific areas

Strengthening water resource assessment programmes

Strengthening managerial capabilities of local water user groups

Strengthening information networks on water quantity and quality data

Strengthening capabilities for water resource assessment

Preparing comprehensive catalogues of water resource information at different sources

Issuing public forecasts of flood and drought

Increasing cooperation of riparian countries for assessing transboundary water resources

Increasing cooperation among agencies in the water sector

Improving facilities for collecting hydrological data

Implementing water resource policies based on realistic assessment

Identifying water resource data requirements for planning

Identifying national needs for water resource management

Establishing national water resource priorities

Establishing national databases for hydrological data

Establishing national archives on water resources

Ensuring water programmes use local expertise

Developing sound recruitment for water resource agencies

Developing global models to help assess water quantity

Closing the gap between terrestrial hydrology and ecology

Closing the gap between hydrological flows and biogeochemical processes

Assessing adequacy of water resource data collection networks

Applying standards to ensure data compatibility

Applying proven techniques for processing hydrological data

Value

Web link

US EPA: Monitoring Water Quality

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #4: Quality Education

Sustainable Development Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(F) Exceptional strategies

Subject

Hydrology » Water

Commerce » Assessment

Research, standards » Inspection, tests

Research, standards » Quality unification

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Dec 3, 2024