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Water Quality Quantification: Basics and Implementation

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Quantitative estimation of water quality and its relationships with management activities is a necessary step in efficient water resources management. However, water quality is typically defined in abstract terms and management activities are rarely quantified with respect to their impact on lake water quality. Here we show by demonstration of systems for Lake Kinneret, Israel and the Naroch Lakes of Belarus how water quality can be quantified in relation to lake management activities to be a part of sustainable management.

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  1. Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Migdal, Israel

    A. Parparov & K. D. Hambright

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma Biological Station, Kingston, OK, USA

    K. D. Hambright

  3. Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    L. Hakanson

  4. Laboratory of Hydroecology, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus

    A. Ostapenia

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Parparov, A., Hambright, K.D., Hakanson, L. et al. Water Quality Quantification: Basics and Implementation. Hydrobiologia 560, 227–237 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-005-1642-y

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