Publication: Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring
Date
2022-03-20
ISSN
Published
2022-03-20
Author(s)
Ravenscroft, Peter
Lytton, Lucy
Abstract
This is a companion volume to “Seeing
the Invisible: A Strategic Report on Groundwater Quality,”
which explains why groundwater quality is so important to
managers of development programs in the World Bank and
elsewhere. Its purpose is to provide managers and their
teams with practical guidance on how to set up and manage a
groundwater quality monitoring program. It provides a
logical, step-by-step approach that can be tailored to, and
grow with, the capacity to implement such a program. The
guiding principle is that monitoring is the fundamental
activity that shapes our identification of issues, the
framing of problems, the design of solutions, and the
measurement of the effectiveness of those solutions.
Monitoring is often seen as simple and undervalued, but
monitoring of groundwater quality, and its interpretation,
is technically demanding. On the other hand, it is also
extremely rewarding.
Citation
“Ravenscroft, Peter; Lytton, Lucy. 2022. Practical Manual on Groundwater Quality Monitoring. © Washington, DC: World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37196 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”