The Value of Water Monitoring

Stu Hamilton’s new eBook “The Value of Water Monitoring” can help you communicate the benefits of water monitoring and form persuasive arguments sensitive to local politics and priorities to address any funding deficit for your monitoring program

The benefits of hydrological information vastly outweigh investments made in water monitoring. Whereas investment in monitoring is tightly constrained by administrative processes, hydrological information supports the beneficial resolution of many water issues providing unbounded value.

Hydrological information is the lingua franca for communicating the capacity of a watershed to accommodate diverse demands. Many social, economic, and environmental decisions hinge on the weight of evidence provided by water monitoring. Do we have enough relevant and trustworthy information to tip those decisions toward a high return on investment in managing our water resources to ensure our collective water security?

This eBook proposes that additional funding is required to close the growing gap between water monitoring capability and the rapidly evolving need for evidence-based policies, planning, and engineering design. An in-depth look at the public benefits of water monitoring and the value of hydrological information in informing better decisions, as well as a review of published economic studies on environmental monitoring, together provide the basis for forming persuasive arguments that are sensitive to local politics and priorities to address this global deficit in funding.

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• Water Monitoring
• Water Systems Monitoring
• Value
• Value Chain Analysis
• Water Quality Monitoring
• Monitoring & Evaluation
• Project Monitoring & Evaluation
• Monitoring