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This Analytical Brief provides information about past assessments, outlines the challenge but also provides a plan for a world water quality assessment, which, if undertaken,...

Volume 4, ‘Scientific Background”, underpins the series and includes a review of water quality guidelines for ecosystems from around the world. It was the first volume in the...

This book seeks to explore how legislation, which is the backbone of governance and enforcement systems, accommodates and makes provision for the connections among economic (and...

More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water and more than double that number lack access to safe sanitation. With a rapidly growing global population, demand...

The document reports on the results of the Workshop on "Coastal Water Quality Criteria and Effluent Guidelines for the Caribbean" that took place in San Juan, Puerto Rico 5-15...

The seventh pan-European environmental assessment gives an insight into the progress achieved in environmental protection, a cornerstone of life and human health, but also...

The present paper represents the “corporate view” of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on global water quality monitoring, and the most salient issues facing GEMS/Water. It...

The Network for Industrial Environmental Management (NIEM) has been established comprising of research institutions, laboratories, government agencies, and pulp and paper mills...

The major goal of this overview is to present recent information on the river and direct inputs of chemical substances to the coastal sea within NOWPAP region and to estimate...

This report provides a basis for discussions that will lead to the development of a unified approach to eutrophication assessment that can be used to determine the...

The SDG indicator 6.3.2 (SDG 632) methodology helps countries to report on ambient water quality in a consistent and straightforward manner and has undergone several iterations...

This report aims to highlight some existing sanitation system alternatives (e.g. ecological sanitation) to conventional (centralised) sewer based sanitation systems; but also to...

This volume assesses the state of the art in applying economic valuation techniques to environmental problems in developing countries. It is in fulfilment of a contract between...

The Water Quality of World River Basins selectively summarizes data contributed by countries participating in the GEMS/WATER Programme over the period 1976-90. The book also...

Through a total of 40 graphics, together with accompanying texts arid maps, Vital Water Graphics highlights how the quantity, quality and availability of fresh and marine waters...

The present Technical Report is the result of a case study undertaken by the Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) and sponsored by the Caribbean Environment Programme of the United...

As the principal United Nations body on environment, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) had been tasked by UN-Water to lead on freshwater quality and aquatic ecosystem data and...

The data and analyses presented in Water Quality for Ecosystem and Human Health are from GEMStat, the global water quality database created by UNEP’s GEMS/Water Programme, the...

The purpose of this book is to provide a compilation of methodologies that are currently in use, or have been used, in laboratories that provide water quality data and...

The present paper represents the “corporate view” of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on global water quality monitoring, and the most salient issues facing GEMS/Water. It...