Aim of Resource Quality Monitoring

Resource Quality Monitoring includes a number of reporting activities, including the development of guidelines and procedures for the monitoring and assessment of water resource quality. It also involves management of national monitoring programmes, namely the National Microbial Water Quality Monitoring Programme ( NMMP), the National Aquatic Ecosystem Health Monitoring Programme (including the RHP) the National Eutrophication Monitoring Programme (NEMP), the Toxicity Monitoring Programme and the National Chemical Monitoring Programme (NCMP). Other areas of activity include the application of ecotoxicology (ecological risk assessment), and support for the resource directed measures (RDM) office.