| Resource Name |
Northern Waters: A Guide to Designing and Conducting Water Quality Monitoring in Northern Canada |
| Unique File Number |
199 |
| Information Type |
Monitoring |
| Surface Water |
A |
| Aquatic Ecosystem |
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| Groundwater |
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| Groundwater & Surface Water |
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| Management for Natural & Industrial Hazards |
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| Strengths |
focus on water quality issues and methods for northern climates and geography |
| Limitations |
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| Challenges |
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| Outstanding Research Questions |
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| Outstanding Research Questions |
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| Information Subtype |
monitoring |
| Organization |
Northern Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN-North) |
| Resource Name |
EMAN-North. 2005. Northern Waters: A Guide to Designing and Conducting Water Quality
Monitoring in Northern Canada. Northern Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN-North). |
| Resource Purpose |
The Northern Water Quality Manual is designed to assist with water quality and aquatic system studies in northern Canada. It provides key information that most northern personnel require to answer questions on water quality issues and to design water quality monitoring and assessment projects. The manual:
· Provides information on freshwater and marine systems, system processes, and characteristics that must be taken into consideration when designing water quality monitoring programs.
· Explains guidelines for water quality.
· Identifies key parameters for assessing water quality.
· Provides guidelines for designing monitoring programs, including the steps required and factors which should be considered.
· Includes information on field sampling techniques, handling of samples, and working with a laboratory.
· Supplies guidance for interpreting water quality data and understanding laboratory reports.
· Describes statistics for analyzing data and tools to help understand the results, such as graphs and a water quality index.
· Describes northern water quality issues including the quality of drinking water, ways to protect drinking water sources, and human activities and natural events that affect northern water quality. |
| Type of Information |
report |
| How does this help decision making? |
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| Program Status |
complete |
| NE Coverage |
Northern specific |
| Drinking Water |
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| Ecosystem |
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| Fish |
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| Groundwater |
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| Public Safety |
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| SW Quality |
Y |
| SW Quantity |
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| Link |
http://www.taiga.net/reports/EN_WQManual_Full.pdf |
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