2018 Lower Mekong Water Quality Monitoring Report

DOI
10.52107/mrc.qx5ynz
Title
2018 Lower Mekong Water Quality Monitoring Report
Author
MRC
Abstract

This reports on the results of the monitoring of water quality across 48 stations in the LMB. The report shows the water quality in the Mekong and Bassac Rivers was still of good quality with the slight improvement compared with 2016. There was only a small number of measurements of chemical oxygen demand (COD) and dissolved oxygen (DO) that violated the MRC Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Human Health (WQGH) and the MRC Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life (WQGA). Most exceedances were recorded in the Delta. Of a slight concern was the DO level at Chau Doc, which violated the WQGH for all sampling occasions causing water quality for the protection of human health to be downgraded from ‘good’ in 2017 to ‘moderate’ in 2018.

Publication Date
Publisher
MRC Secretariat
Language
English
Categories
Reports Technical Paper Series
Keywords
MRC Basin Monitoring
Access
Open Access