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Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and Marine Water Quality (2000) AND Australian Guidelines for Water Quality Monitoring and Reporting (2000)

This web page reproduces the information published in the promotional brochure about the Water Quality Guidelines and the Monitoring Guidelines.

Contents

• Download the brochure in PDF format
• The Water Quality Guidelines
• The Monitoring Guidelines
• Availability

Part of the National Water Quality Management Strategy (NWQMS) (Australia) and National Agenda for Sustainable Water Management (New Zealand)

Two new sets of guidelines for managing water quality.

A must for:

• agencies and organisations at all levels of government in Australia and New Zealand
• industry
• researchers
• catchment management groups
• community groups
• consultants
• all people interested in water quality issues

The Water Quality Guidelines

A new approach for the new millennium (a complete revision and expansion of the 1992 guidelines)

The new Guidelines document features:

• management of water by cooperation, not confrontation
• a nationally-agreed water quality management framework
• a contemporary, holistic management approach
• a focus on deriving and assessing site-specific guidelines
  
  
• guidelines for aquatic ecosystems:
  • integrated assessment of water and sediment
  • management founded on biological criteria
  • use of reference sites and local biological effects data
  • guidelines tailored for different ecosystem types
  • guidelines that offer three different levels of protection
  • risk-based decision-trees that may reduce costs;
    
    
• expanded Guidelines for primary industries:
  • a key focus on sustainable farming systems
  • guidelines that maintain productivity and
  • minimise escape of potential contaminants
    and, for the first time,
  • Guidelines for aquaculture industries and human consumers of aquatic foods;
    
    
• links to human health values:
  • recreation and aesthetics
  • drinking water quality
• support volumes, databases and software to better account for local conditions.

The Water Quality Guidelines comes as

• a ring-binder containing 315 printed pages (Volume 1 only - the main Guidelines - plus index), an Introduction booklet, as well as

• a complete set of the Guidelines documents and information on a fully searchable CD-ROM, which includes Volumes 1, 2 (support information for aquatic ecosystems) & 3 (support information for primary industries) of the Water Quality Guidelines, the Monitoring Guidelines and the NWQMS Implementation Guidelines (1998), as well as databases and software associated with the Water Quality Guidelines. This CD is only available with the Water Quality Guidelines.

The Monitoring Guidelines

For the first time in Australia, a complete one-stop state-of-the-art guidelines document on how to monitor water quality, whether fresh surface or groundwater, estuarine, coastal or marine.

The Monitoring Guidelines covers all stages of monitoring from first thoughts on your monitoring program to final report dissemination. Material is presented in a systematic framework with essential theory and practice, many worked examples, case studies and references and is relevant to both Australia and New Zealand and other areas.

There are chapters on:

• setting monitoring program objectives
• study design
• field sampling program
• laboratory analyses
• data analyses and interpretation
• reporting and dissemination of information
  as well as
• step by step frameworks and checklists
• case studies
• worked examples of statistical analyses
• guidance on health & safety matters and on QA/QC
• typical layouts of data recording forms.

The Monitoring Guidelines comes as:

• a ring-binder containing 252 printed pages (indexed) and a Summary booklet.

Availability

Australia

You can buy these Guidelines from:

Australian Water Association
PO Box 388
ARTARMON NSW 2064
phone: (02) 9413 1288
fax: (02) 9413 1047

OR

Australian Government Info Shops in capital cities and Townsville. For locations and ordering details, phone 132 447 (toll free in Australia, open 24 hours).

Recommended retail prices including the 10% Australian GST are:

• A$125 (Water Quality Guidelines+CD-ROM),
• A$80 (Monitoring Guidelines).
  OR
• A$175 (both documents together, SAVE A$30),

Postage and handling costs are extra and will depend on the size of the order and the distance.

Note that free updates for three years from date of release of the Guidelines are included in the prices by registering your purchase on line or by post.

New Zealand

You can buy these Guidelines from:

NZ Water & Wastes Association
PO Box 13880
ONEHUNGA, AUCKLAND 1006

phone: (09) 636 3636
fax: (09) 636 1234
email: water@nzwwa.org.nz

Recommended retail prices will depend on the A$-NZ$ exchange rate at time of purchase.

Postage and handling costs are extra and will depend on the size of the order and the distance.

Both sets of Guidelines continually refer to and complement each other - so users are likely to need both. Buying both together saves A$30 on cost of separate purchases.

The Water Quality Guidelines and the Monitoring Guidelines are both released jointly by ANZECC (Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council) and ARMCANZ (Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand.

Download the Brochure

A full colour PDF version of this brochure is available. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view it.

• Download About the Water Quality Guidelines and the Monitoring Guidelines (brochure.pdf - 88 KB)

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