Environmental Monitoring Handbook
This handbook helps you with the most pervasive activity in environmental science --taking and analyzing environmental samples from water, air or soil.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Environmental Monitoring Handbook
Part I: Water
Chapter List
- Chapter 1: Water Quality Guidelines
- Chapter 2: Design of Water Quality Monitoring Programs
- Chapter 3: In-Situ Measurement of Physicochemical Water Quality Parameters
- Chapter 4: Water Quality Assessment by Algal Monitoring
- Chapter 5: Biological Monitoring and Assessment Using Invertebrates
- Chapter 6: Monitoring of Trace Metals and Metalloids in Natural Waters
- Chapter 7: Analysis of Organic Substances in Natural Water
- Chapter 8: Environmental Monitoring of Nutrients
- Chapter 9: Biomarker Approaches for Ecotoxicological Biomonitoring at Different Levels of Biological Organization
- Chapter 10: Inorganic Nonmetallic Substances
Barry T. Hart
Introduction
Most countries now have water resources management policies aimed at achieving sustainable use of their water resources by protecting and enhancing their quality while maintaining economic and social development. Achieving this objective requires that the needs and wants of the community for each water resource are defined and that these resources are protected from degradation. These community needs generally are called the environmental values (or beneficial uses) of the water body and can include water for drinking, swimming, fishing, recreation, agricultural food production, and/or ecosystem protection.
Water quality guidelines (or criteria) are the scientific and technical information used to provide an objective means for judging the quality needed to maintain a particular environmental value. Knowledge-based management decisions made on the basis of this scientific knowledge are far more preferable than those resulting from pressure by narrowly focused lobby groups.
A number of water quality guideline compilations are now available (e.g., USEPA, 1986a; CCREM, 1991; ANZECC, 1992). With few...
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