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The National Water Quality Monitoring Council (Council) provides a national forum for coordination of comparable and scientifically defensible methods and strategies to improve water quality monitoring, assessment and reporting, and promotes partnerships to foster collaboration, advance the science, and improve management within all elements of the water quality monitoring community. Vital to this role, the Council provides a voice for monitoring practitioners across the Nation and fosters increased understanding and stewardship of our water resources. Read more about the Council's activities through 2010.

Highlights from the 7th Biennial National Conference Monitoring From the Summit to the Sea focused on the many facets of water quality and water quantity monitoring; many of the presentations from the conference that showcased new findings on the quality of the Nation's streams and groundwater, and highlighted recent innovations and cutting-edge tools in water-quality monitoring, assessment, and reporting are now online.

Webinar Series The Collaboration and Outreach workgroup is sponsoring a webinar series on topics of interest to the water quality monitoring community. Recent topics have included real-time monitoring, social media web tools, and the integration of volunteer monitoring data to a state system. More...

Online Newsletter: The National Water Monitoring News The National Water Quality Monitoring Council newsletter provides a voice for monitoring practitioners across the Nation and fosters increased understanding and stewardship of our water resources. The first edition highlights products and services that the Council has worked on over the last two years. Read it here...

Aquatic Sensor Workgroup The Aquatic Sensor Workgroup is a public-private partnership of water-quality monitoring agencies, industry, and academia. Our mission is to ensure that water-quality data collected by sensors are of known and documented quality. Go to watersensors.org

Water Quality Statistics and Assessments The National Water Quality Monitoring Council’s (NWQMC) monitoring framework identifies the six steps of monitoring to understand, protect, and restore our waters. The Water Quality Statistics and Assessment (WQSA) workgroup was formed to address the need for better access to available information in two framework elements...read the white paper

Compatible Web Services (Water Quality Exchange) Chemical, physical, and biological data are readily accessible online in a compatible format from the National Water Information System (NWIS) Water-Quality Web Services of the USGS and the Storage and Retrieval (STORET) of the EPA

National Monitoring Network for Coastal Waters: Update on the Pilot Studies The goal of the Network is to provide information about the health of our oceans and coastal ecosystems and inland influences on coastal waters for improved resource management. Read more about ongoing efforts in the three demonstration areas...