Monitoring and assessment are essential steps in the environmental management of water. The need has been identified for an integrated framework to provide capacity for the monitoring and assessment of water quality and quantity, and ecosystem health in freshwater and estuarine systems.

The aspects of monitoring and assessment that this theme is concerned with include:

• development of monitoring program objectives
• selection of appropriate indicators for their specific management objectives
• design and optimisation of monitoring programs
• interpretation of monitoring data
• efficient use of existing data and knowledge
• development of report assessments

To be informed of tool releases become a member of the Toolkit today!