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Design of Nationwide Water‐Quality‐Monitoring Networks
Author(s) -
Pickering R. J.,
Ficke John F.
Publication year - 1976
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.1551-8833.1976.tb02358.x
Subject(s) - water quality , agency (philosophy) , scale (ratio) , quality (philosophy) , environmental science , environmental resource management , computer science , water resource management , hydrology (agriculture) , geography , cartography , engineering , geotechnical engineering , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , biology
As the agency responsible for describing and evaluating water resources of the US, the USGS has designed several networks for monitoring water quality on a national and regional scale. The largest of these, the National Stream Quality Accounting Network, is designed to monitor quantity and quality of stream flow and is described in the following.