Community-based water quality monitoring: From data collection to sustainable management of water resources

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2001

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Los Baños, Philippines: Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development

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The following is an account of how a rural community in the Philippines worked side by side with researchers, nongovernmental and governmental workers over a five-year period to develop science-based indicators of water quality that proved relevant for developing environmental policy. The case primarily focused on the early stages of implementing a municipal-level, natural resource management plan in Lantapan. The setting and background of the project are briefly described, followed by the nature of specific indicators and how they were chosen and refined. Next, the process by which these indicators influenced policy are documented, concluding with lessons learned throughout the process.

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Biological assessment, Research planning, Sedimentation, Water management, Soil erosion, Environmental impacts, Program planning, Local policy, Land use management, Social marketing, Community participation, Health impacts, Water quality, Water pollution, Community-based monitoring, The Philippines, Manupali watershed, Lantapan, Decision support, Bacterial contamination, Water quality indicators, Environmental policy, Disrupted stream flow, Participatory landscape-lifescape appraisal (plla), Watershed degradation, Total suspended solids (tss), Stream discharge, Participatory research, Dissemination, Watershed

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