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National Water-Quality Assessment: Geological Survey Faces Formidable Data Management Challenges

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 30, 1993
Report No. IMTEC-93-30
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Summary:

Since the 1970s, roughly $500 billion has been spent on water pollution abatement; it is unclear, however, whether this investment is paying off because the data needed to assess the quality of the nation's water are unavailable. In 1986, the U.S. Geological Survey began the National Water-Quality Assessment Program to fill this void. This report identifies (1) the obstacles that the program has encountered in obtaining, interpreting, and disseminating water-quality data from various sources; (2) approaches being used to overcome these obstacles; and (3) the potential these approaches hold in solving water-quality data collection and management problems.

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