Securing Our Future Program“Water Quality Monitoring Database”

Usukhbayar.Sh (SOF, TAF)

Biobeer, 2008 March,05

SOF program started in December 2006 and is a three year program funded by the Royal Government of the Netherlands

Being implemented with a coalition of non-governmental partners, public and private counterparts

Supports multiple components, forming a framework to reinforce healthy and responsible economic growth

Mongolian Watershed Monitoring Network

“Securing Our Future” program

Water Quality Monitoring

Research Team Water Chemistry Hydrology Entomology (aquatic insects) Habitat Assessment

Chemical Parameters

► pH, DO Saturation► Ca 2+, Hardness, Acidity, Alkalinity, CL-

► NH4+, NO3

-, NO2, PO43--React, SO4 2-, CL2, Br2, I2, Fe 3+, SIO2,

SS► Cu 2+, Cr6+, Fe3+

Hydrological parameters

► Stream Weight (m), Average Depth(m), Max Depth(m),

Average Velocity (m/c), Max Velocity (m/c),► Cross sectional area (km2), Catchment area (m2),

Discharge (m3/c), Stream Length (m) and Slope (%)

Aquatic Insects

►One 1-m2 kick net (600µm) in high current riffles. Sampling continues until at least 200 specimens have been collected. ►A Surber (mesh size 500µm), riffle (lotic erosional) pool (lotic depostional) and bank (riparian plant) habitats.

►3 dip net collections with coarse-mesh nets in low current habitat and under banks. Also can be used to sample the gravel riffle areas where stone-cased trichoptera may be abundant.

Habitat Parameters

►Epifaunal Substrate/ Available cover

►Embeddedness

►Velocity/ Depth Regime

►Sediment Deposition

►Channel Flow Status

►Channel Alteration

►Frequency of Riffles

►Bank Stability / left and right/

►Vegetative Protection / left and right/

►Riparian Buffer Width / left and right/

Contact us

Tamir.P (Program Officer) tamir@asiafound.mn

Usukhbayar.Sh (Program Assistant) usukhuu2003@asiafound.mn

Phone: (976-11) 331-874,

Fax: (976-11) 331-873

www.mongolianriverresources.mnwww.mongolianriverresources.mn/wqmd/

Thank you for your attention.