GEMET
General
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Environmental
Thesaurus
water quality management
Definition

Water quality management concerns four major elements: the use (recreation, drinking water, fish and wildlife propagation, industrial or agricultural) to be made of the water; criteria to protect those uses; implementation plans (for needed industrial-municipal waste treatment improvements) and enforcement plans, and an anti-degradation statement to protect existing high quality waters.

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Concept URL: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/9216