Aim of Resource Quality Monitoring
Resource Quality Monitoring includes a number of reporting activities, including
the development of guidelines and procedures for the monitoring and assessment of
water resource quality. It also involves management of national monitoring programmes,
namely the
National Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Programme (NMMP), the
National Eutrophication Monitoring Programme (NEMP), the
National Aquatic Ecosystem Health Monitoring Programme (including the REMP and NEsMP), the
Toxicity Monitoring Programme and the
National Chemical Monitoring Programme (NCMP).
Other areas of activity include the application of ecotoxicology (ecological risk assessment),
and support for state of water reporting.
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