Water quality monitoring is an essential tool in the management of water resources and this book comprehensively covers the entire monitoring operation. This important text is the outcome of a collborative programme of activity between UNEP and WHO with inputs from WMO and UNESCO and draws on the international standards of the International Organization of Standardization.
Monitoring Water Quality is a practical assessment of one of the most pressing growth and sustainability issues in the developed and developing worlds: water quality. Over the last 10 years, improved laboratory techniques have led to the discovery of microbial and viral contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors in our fresh water supplies that were not monitored previously. This book offers in-depth coverage of water quality issues (natural and human-related), monitoring of contaminants, and remediation of water contamination. In particular, readers will learn about arsenic removal techniques, real-time monitoring, and risk assessment. Monitoring Water Quality is a vital text for students and professionals in environmental science, civil engineering, chemistry — anyone concerned with issues of water analysis and sustainability assessment. - Covers in depth the scope of sustainable water problems on a worldwide scale - Provides a rich source of sophisticated methods for analyzing water to assure its safety - Describes the monitoring of contaminants, including pharmaceutical and endocrine disruptors - Helps to quickly identify the sources and fates of contaminants and sources of pollutants and their loading
Proposes a comprehensive coastal water quality monitoring & assessment program that will provide the info. required by the CA State Legis. Proposes to utilize the monitoring & assess. info. provided by various existing water quality programs, incl. the Nat. Pollutant Discharge Elim. System Permit Program & the Fed. Clean Water Act Sect. 305(b) program. Also proposes to utilize the info. that will become available once the recently proposed Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program is implemented. Also proposes the implemen. of 61 mgmt. measures identified in the Plan for CA's Non-point Source Pollution Control Program & implemen. of the Best Mgmt. Practices prescribed in storm water permits, as actions to maintain & improve coastal water quality.
