Monitoring water quality in the developing world

WATER QUALITY MONITORING is essential for the management of water supplies particularly in the developing world. Within the framework of WHO and local incountry standards, many countries have put surveillance and control of water quality high on their list of national priorities. To this end, a number of developing countries have introduced different ways of managing and monitoring their water quality. This paper presents an overview of two different approaches in monitoring water quality which are at opposite ends of the monitoring spectrum.