Water Quality Monitoring: A Practical Guide to the Design and Implementation of Freshwater Quality Studies and Monitoring ProgrammesJamie Bartram, Richard Ballance Water quality monitoring is a fundamental tool in the management of freshwater resources, and 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. |
Contents
1 | 7 |
2 | 14 |
3 | 20 |
DESIGNING A MONITORING PROGRAMME | 35 |
5 | 41 |
7 | 48 |
9 | 57 |
2 | 63 |
PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL ANALYSES | 113 |
ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS | 201 |
ANALYTICAL QUALITY ASSURANCE | 215 |
MICROBIOLOGICAL ANALYSES | 237 |
67 | 247 |
BIOLOGICAL MONITORING | 263 |
HYDROLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS | 303 |
USE AND REPORTING OF MONITORING DATA | 335 |
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alkalinity aluminium ammonia ammonium analysis apparatus aquatic aquifer biological blank buffer solution calcium Calculation calibration carbon cent checked chemical chloride chlorophyll coliforms colour concentration Cool Daphnia depth determined dilution water discharge dissolved oxygen distilled water EDTA effluent electrode ensure equipment Erlenmeyer flask faecal field filtration flow fluoride Geneva glass glassware groundwater HNO3 incubation indicator interference laboratory lakes litre measured medium meter methods mg ¹ ml of sample mol ¹ monitoring programme nitrogen Organization for Standardization oxidation particles Petri dishes Pipette pollution Polyethylene potassium prepared procedure quality assurance reagent Rinse river sampler sampling station selenium sodium sodium hydroxide solution specific spectrophotometer standardised storage sulphate sulphuric acid surface water suspended sediment techniques temperature thermotolerant coliforms titration total coliforms tube variables volume volumetric flask water body water quality Water Quality Assessments water quality monitoring water sample