Assessing Water Quality
Geography 549
Allan James
Dec., 2012
SC DHEC Shifts to eColi from Fecal Coliforms:
DHEC has filed a proposal to EPA to revise regulations to allow water quality standards to be based on E.coli bacterial rather than FC, which have long been the standard. Details available here: http://www.scdhec.gov/environment/water/wq_bacteria.htm
DNA Sequencing Methods for Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Monitoring (A Possible Future Development):
The following two sources provide a little background on using DNA sequencing methods for
water quality and aquatic ecosystem monitoring and lead to additional
links. This is
an area of research that is beginning to be applied in an experimental
context.
The
method is
contingent upon the development of a public reference library of species
identifiers. To this end, a Barcode
of Life Database (BOLD) is being developed, and the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) is
promoting its use.
*) Next-Generation DNA Sequencing (EPA, c.2011)
- http://www.epa.gov/eerd/research/dnabarcoding.html