Monitoring and Surveillance

7.1

What techniques do we need to monitor & collect data for good ecological status?

1. Is it enough for quantification?
2. Data sampling often not followed by immediate data processing - improve monitoring methodologies.
3. Can we combine the monitoring with development of sets of indicators
4. Assessment of status of intermittent (ephemeral) water bodies, role of flash floods
5. Good monitoring data to produce data through WFD compliance methods (confidence in data, access to data);

Valencia workshop,
Sibiu workshop

7.2

How do we improve the spatial resolution for monitoring?

1. Can we improve our understanding by water body grouping?
2. Can we get the spatial resolution right to be more effective?

7.3

Improve our research and monitoring ability to quantify pollutants

1. How pollutants are modified during transport through a catchment,
2. How much NO3 in groundwater is attenuated before entering the river?

7.4

IWRM-Net to improve networking to facilitate harmonisation of monitoring procedures around Europe

1. Water quality monitoring and standardisation - physical, chemical, biological
2. Data harmonisation and integration and presentation => modelling with GIS
3. Use indicators developed by an Expert Network  to compare and assess water resource management in selected basins

Valencia workshop proposal