Monitoring Water Quality
Drs Gerrit Vossebelt Senior Advisor – Rijkswaterstaat – WVL EU Resident Twinning Advisor Turkey
13 November 2013
Delta of 4 international rivers Rhine
Meuse Scheldt Ems North Sea Wadden Sea
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Monitoring Networks • Physical monitoring - since ± 1800 • Chemical monitoring – since 1952 • Biological monitoring - since 1992 • Automated water quality monitoring – since 1978
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To which extent and how are the monitoring results taken into account in water policy implementation?
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Information Management Demand
Alignment
Supply
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Monitoring Cycle Water management Information needs
Information utilisation
Information Demand Information strategy
Reporting
Network design
Data analysis
Information Supply Sample collection
Data handling
Laboratory analysis 6
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Water management Information needs
Information Needs
Information utilisation
Information strategy
Reporting
Network design
Data analysis
Sample collection
Data handling
Laboratory analysis
Water quality monitoring necessary for: National water management • policy evaluation • determination of measures and assessment of their effectiveness • status and trends in concentrations and in loads • compliance testing
International agreements / obligations • OSPAR • TMAP • International River Commissions
EU • • • •
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(European Union) obligations Water Framework Directive (WFD) Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Nitrate Directive Natura 2000 Rijkswaterstaat INBO 2013 - Workshop on Monitoring 13 November 2013
Water management Information needs
Information Strategy
Information utilisation
Information strategy
Reporting
Network design
Data analysis
Sample collection
Data handling
Laboratory analysis
Water management
Sources of Information Monitoring is not the only source
Models, knowledge based systems
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Other sources
Information needs
Information strategy
Information utilisation
M onitoring network
Data analysis
M odels Knowledge-based systems Other sources Rijkswaterstaat INBO 2013 - Workshop on Monitoring 13 November 2013
Water management Information needs
Information Strategy
Information utilisation
Information strategy
Reporting
Network design
Data analysis
Sample collection
Data handling
Laboratory analysis
TOOL
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To whom are the results of the exploitation of the data and in what form?
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Water management Information needs
Information Use and Products
Information strategy
Reporting
Network design
Data analysis
Sample collection
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Central database International Reporting Primary Reports Water system Reports Thematic reports Operational Plans Products of Others
Information utilisation
Data handling
Laboratory analysis
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Reports to national parliament EU-reports Reports for international commissions
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Water Framework Directive Portal Surveillance & Operational Monitoring • Internet based database • Interactive • • •
http://krwportaal.nl/portaal http://www.informatiehuiswater.nl http://www.helpdeskwater.nl
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What indicators are used in view of supporting decision making process?
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Monitoring Strategy - number of parameters 300 PCB's Organic micropollutants Pesticides
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Number of parameters per parametergroup
Metals Radiochemistry Organic pollution 200
Eutrofication General parameters
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Priorities in Information Management 2014
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voldoende water
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project Afronding centralisatie LMW uitbesteding B&O/achterstallig onderhoud Bestuurlijke afspraken nieuwe inbeheernames OLO, AGNL, ICAWEB Caribisch Nederland Havik II Hoogwaardige afvoermetingen bij Sint Pieter I&M meetnet incl LMW2 (NWCL project) Modelaanpassingen Eems-Dollard Next Generation Hydrosoftware Verbetering IV waterberichtgeving Vernieuwing IV zeehaven Maasmond WaterDataNet incl opslag mariene projecten Waterportaal Betere debietmeting waterverdeling bij hoge afvoeren Digitale Delta Herziening KRW dochterrichtlijn prioritaire stoffen IV Deltaprogramma Oplevering en inbeheername Maaswerken Peilbeheer IWP: landelijke uitrol Vervanging stofverspreidingsmodellen crisismanagement Water aan- en afvoerfunctie van kanalen Zuid-Nederland Grondwaterstanden-vervanging informatiesysteem Microplastics Samenwerking waterschappen rond meetnetten-laboratoria Temperatuurverwachting bij dreigende ijsvorming
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Management Area of Main Water Systems • • • • • •
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90,278 km² of surface water 35 kilometres of dunes 214 kilometres of dikes and dams 10 weirs Afsluitdijk and Houtribdijk (two dikes) 4 storm surge barriers
Rijkswaterstaat General presentation
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Thank you
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