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Assessing the Performance of a Nation in Improving River Water Quality: Planning Action for the Future

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River water quality in England and Wales improved by 28% from 1990 to 1995. This is a statement based exactly and entirely on data collected and processed by fixed and published rules and placed on Public Registers. This paper sets out how we deal with error, how we prevent error leading to wrong decisions on the action needed to improve water quality, and how we transfer the data into hit lists of priorities for action.

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  1. Environment Agency, Kingfisher House Goldhay Way, Orton Goldhay, Peterborough Cambs, PE2 6NZ, UK

    A. E. Warn

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Dokuz Eylul University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

    Nilgun B. Harmancioglu  & Sevinc D. Ozkul  & 

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Environmental Engineering Department, Dokuz Eylul University, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

    M. Necdet Alpaslan

  3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

    Vijay P. Singh

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Warn, A.E. (1997). Assessing the Performance of a Nation in Improving River Water Quality: Planning Action for the Future. In: Harmancioglu, N.B., Alpaslan, M.N., Ozkul, S.D., Singh, V.P. (eds) Integrated Approach to Environmental Data Management Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5616-5_31

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