UV Spectrophotometry Environmental Monitoring Solutions

Daniel Constant, Catherine Gonzalez, Evelyne Touraud, Nathalie Guigues and Olivier Thomas 

The adoption of the European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) has set new requirements for water quality monitoring in Europe. Innovative tools could play a main role in the design and implementation of operational, surveillance and investigative monitoring as described by WFD. Moreover, the monitoring requirements for successfully implementing the WFD will directly depend upon available measurement techniques of demonstrated quality, which will be able to deliver reliable data at an affordable cost. 

Chemical and Biological Techniques for Water Monitoring Edited by Catherine Gonzalez, Philippe Quevauviller and Richard Greenwood 2009, John Wiley Sons Ltd. ISBN 978-0-470-05811-4 

There is an obvious need to develop, to propose a set of new methods/techniques that could matching the new demands of the WFD with the characteristics of the existing monitoring system, budgetary constraints. 

In this context, portable or online UV spectrophotometer systems could comply with new monitoring requirements and could offer a relevant alternative to the classical approach (spot sampling and laboratory analysis) for environmental monitoring  

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