EARTHSC 2WW3 Lecture 12: Lecture 12 - Improving Access.pdf
9 Dec 2012
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Monitoring lies at the heart of water management. Historically monitoring has relied on a network of stations worldwide for instance. It helps in predicting water-related disasters such as floods. It helps assessing the available water stations measuring water discharge can be used to predict floods. The numbers of these stations have been decreasing over the last 40 years. The same has happened with station measuring evaporative losses. There are many reasons for this decline for instance budget cuts also the privatization of water services in some countries in some countries has led to layoffs. Partly due to the lack of man power the use of more advanced techniques such as automated monitoring is called to play an increasingly important role in water management. Automated stations allow 24 hour monitoring and can operate for weeks or even months without human assistance. The data can either be recorded or transmitted via radio signals.
