Water quality for ecosystem and human health, 2d ed.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Water quality for ecosystem and human health, 2d ed.

United Nations Publications

2008

120 pages

$25.00

Paperback

TD215

The report is issued by the United Nations Environmental Programme's Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS)/Water Programme, and intended for academics, research scientists, and water practitioners. The lead author is Genevieve M. Carr. It discusses the definition of water quality, measuring it, human activities that affect water quality, emerging threats to it, and emerging opportunities for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The chapter on measuring describes how and why to test for physical and chemical characteristics of a water body, major ions, nutrients, metals, organic matter, biological components, organic contaminants, and hydrological variables. No date is cited for the first edition. There is no index.

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