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MONITORING WATER QUALITY

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WATER

 * Monitoring water quality
   * Why does water quality monitoring matter?
 * Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals and water
 * World Water Quality Alliance (WWQA) – a partnership effort

The Global Environment Monitoring System for freshwater (GEMS/Water) provides
the world community with sound data on fresh water quality to support scientific
assessments and decision-making on the subject.

Surface and ground water quality monitoring data collected from the global
GEMS/Water monitoring network is shared through the GEMStat information system.

GEMS/Water supports the Sustainable Development Goal for Water (SDG 6) with
methodology support, data management, quality assurance, indicator calculation
and capacity development. More information on our support for SDG Indicator
6.3.2 on ambient water quality can be found on the 6.3.2 Online Support
Platform.

GEMS/Water's work falls into three categories:

 * Managing water data
 * Developing monitoring capacity
 * Assessing freshwater quality



> GEMS/Water was established in 1978 to collect world-wide water quality data
> for assessments of status and trends in global inland water quality. In 2014,
> after more than 30 years of being successfully operated by the Department of
> the Environment of Canada, the GEMS/Water mandate was renewed and strengthened
> by the first universal United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). With new
> donors the Programme was restructured into its current form.

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WATER

 * Monitoring water quality
   * Why does water quality monitoring matter?
 * Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals and water
 * World Water Quality Alliance (WWQA) – a partnership effort


FREE COURSES ON FRESHWATER QUALITY MONITORING

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched a range of new water
quality monitoring and assessment courses on its eLearning platform, ahead of
World Water Day on 22 March.

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OUR WORK

We provide the world community with sound data on freshwater quality to support
scientific assessments and decision-making. Our work falls into three
categories:

 * Managing water data
 * Developing monitoring capacity
 * Assessing freshwater quality


WATER QUALITY MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF GROUNDWATER

This document is part of a series of guidebooks that address various aspects of
monitoring and assessment of freshwater. It describes the main features of
groundwater that govern its quantity, availability and chemical quality.

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PARTNERS

GEMS/Water Data Centre | International Centre for Water Resources and Global
Change | Federal Institute of Hydrology | P.O. Box 200253 | 56002 Koblenz |
Germany | e-mail: gwdc[at]bafg.de | www.gemstat.org

GEMS/Water Capacity Development Centre | Environmental Research Institute |
University College Cork | Ireland | Mr. Timothy Sullivan | Centre Director |

e-mail: timothy.sullivan[at]ucc.ie | www.ucc.ie/en/gemscdc/


PUBLICATIONS

Browse our collection of publications and other resources. Read more


CONTACT US

For general information please contact: kilian.christ[at]un.org

GEMS/Water Global Programme Coordination Unit | Science Division | UNEP | P.O.
Box 30552 | Nairobi 00100 | Kenya


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