River Watch - Guidelines for public environmental monitoring

The manual includes brief information on sources of water pollution in water bodies and recommendations on how to create an initiative group for observations. This is a set of methods for public research of water bodies of the Baltic Sea, as well as a description of the methodology for conducting
hydrochemical studies of surface waters, which is available to a wide range
of public observers/river watchers.

In the Annex you will also find a protocol that can be used to record the results of public water quality monitoring. The protocol also includes the simplest methods of bioindication – measuring the impact on the environment by examining its inhabitants.

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