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Gathering and Use of Water Quality Data: A Symposium
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1961.tb00707.x
Subject(s) - instrumentation (computer programming) , quality (philosophy) , data collection , raw data , water quality , government (linguistics) , product (mathematics) , engineering , engineering management , business , computer science , operations research , mathematics , statistics , operating system , ecology , philosophy , linguistics , geometry , epistemology , biology , programming language
This article presents a series of papers presented on Aug. 29, 1960, at the Symposium on Water Quality Measurement and Instrumentation, Cincinnati, Ohio, including the following: “Utility Needs,” by Samuel S. Baxter, discusses a utility's need for adequate data on fluctuations in raw supply, functioning of treatment and distribution equipment, and finished product quality; “Consulting Engineer Needs,” by Paul D. Haney, discusses the consulting engineer's need for water quality data; “Industry Needs,” by Milton F. Schaible, discusses industry's need for sustained collection of basic water data; “Federal Needs,” by K.S. Krause, discusses the use of water quality data by federal government agencies for the purposes of development of supplies, utilization of water resources, monitoring for conformance to standards, quality control, and depicting trends in water quality; “Significance of Radioactivity Data,” by Conrad P. Straub, discusses radioactivity measurement in U.S. surface water samples; and, “Instrumentation for Continuous Analysis,” by Robert H. Jones and Robert J. Joyce, discusses the principles involved in currently available water analysis instrumentation.