River quality water monitoring

Chapter 5. Rivers provide a critical water resource
to support a country’s population, agriculture
and industry, alongside its precious
natural environment. As demand for this finite
resource rapidly grows across the planet,
it is becoming increasingly vital to address
growing pollution problems. Suitable water
quality monitoring techniques and new
technologies, alongside the latest data interpretation
tools and modelling, can provide
key information on the sources of pollution to
provide the knowledge base to ensure sustainable
management in the future. This chapter
introduces some useful source apportionment
tools and new chemical and biological
monitoring techniques, and how they were
recently applied to the upper Ganga catchment
of India.