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Understanding Ecosystems
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Key Message 1 - Water is Essential for Life
Understanding Ecosystems
Resources
Topic of Study - Monitoring
 
  • Why monitor the environment?
  • What is community based monitoring?
  • What aspects of the catchment environment can be monitored by the community?
  • Which aspects of the environment can be monitored by school aged children?
  
Type
Description
Resources Covering the Topic

Easy

 - The National Community Based Water
  Quality Monitoring Program.
- Chemical, physical and biological
  monitoring.
- Communities across the State
  monitoring water quality.
- Many regions in SA have Waterwatch
  Officers who can assist you in
  monitoring of the environment.
- Our Patch/Catchment Care.
- A range of activities related to biological
  monitoring in and around watercourses.
Catchment Water Management Boards in the metropolitan Adelaide area
http://www.catchments.net/

More Comprehensive

- Biological indicators – a summary.

NSW EPA
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/soe2000/
cw/cw_5.2.htm

- Monitoring river health.
- Biological assessment.

SA EPA
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/epa/water.html

- The National Community Based Water
  Quality Monitoring Program.
- Good summary of monitoring of
  waterways.

Waterwatch Australia
http://www.waterwatch.org.au/library/involve.html

- Macroinvertebrates and water quality in
  WA.
- PDF download covering the main issues.

Water Resources WA
http://www.wrc.wa.gov.au/public/waterfacts/
2_macro/WF2.pdf

- Water quality and monitoring.
- Comprehensive review of main water
  quality issues in the Murray catchment.

Murray Darling Basin Commission
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/education/encyclopedia/
water_quality.htm
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