freshwater monitoring

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• Freshwater environmental quality parameters — are the natural and man made chemical, biological and microbiological characteristics of rivers, lakes and ground waters, the ways they are measured and the ways that they change. The values or concentrations attributed to such parameters can be… …   Wikipedia

• Freshwater — is a word that refers to bodies of water such as ponds, lakes, rivers and streams containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. In other words, the term excludes seawater and brackish water.Freshwater is an… …   Wikipedia

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• Wetland — For other uses, see Wetland (disambiguation). The Florida Everglades massive wetland system in the United States saw 1.7 billion gallons of fresh water flushed from it daily and pumped into the ocean following one of the most successive water… …   Wikipedia

• Algal bloom — Algal blooms can present problems for ecosystems and human society An algal bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae (typically microscopic) in an aquatic system. Algal blooms may occur in freshwater as well as marine… …   Wikipedia

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• Water quality — A rosette sampler is used to collect samples in deep water, such as the Great Lakes or oceans, for water quality testing. Water quality is the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water.[1] It is a measure of the condition of… …   Wikipedia

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• Cryosphere — Overview of the Cryosphere and its larger components, from the UN Environment Programme Global Outlook for Ice and Snow. The cryosphere (from the Greek κρύος cryos cold , frost or ice ) is the term which collectively describes the portions of the …   Wikipedia

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