"Recent studies of present and anticipated future requirements for water quality data have emphasized the need for methods which will assure an adequate flow of this vital information. We must have these facts to develop and put into effect sound water quality management policies and programs. Thus the Symposium on Water Quality Measurement and Instrumentation has focused attention on an important problem in the water pollution control programs of the nation. Intensified efforts by industry and governmental agencies will be needed to apply to this effort technological experience already at hand in other fields. Available instrumentation must be adjusted to the demands of more or less continuous monitoring of stream quality. We need devices which will detect, measure, and record continyously at least the more important of those water quality constituents that can now be determined only at the laboratory bench."--Page iii. Includes bibliographical references.

Welcome / Joseph E. Flanagan -- Symposium objectives / Gordon E. McCallum -- Role of water quality data / session chairman, Mark D. Hollis. Water quality management of the future / Harry G. Hanson ; Requirements for criteria of water quality / Jack E. McKee -- Evaluation of water quality protection techniques / Bernard B. Berger -- Harvesting water quality data / Walter A. Lyon -- Discussion -- Utilization of water quality data / session chairman, S. Kenneth Love. Water quality parameters: Physical and chemical parameters / T.E. Larson ; Aquatic organisms / James B. Lackey ; Bacterial parameters of water quality / Paul W. Kabler ; Detection and measurement of organic chemicals in water and waste / Francis M. Middleton ; Radioactivity data -- its significance / Conrad P. Straub ; Discussion ; Water quality data use: Basic considerations in sampling of tidal waters / Thomas R. Glenn ; A new look at water quality data / Harvey O. Banks ; High quality water without high quality data -- Is it possible? / Samuel S. Baxter ; Some observations on the advantages of sustained water quality data to private industry / Milton F. Schaible ; The consulting engineer's need for water quality data / Paul D. Haney ; Water quality data and sustained fish harvests / Lloyd L. Smith ; Need and utilization of water quality data by federal agencies / Keith S. Krause -- Discussion. Instrumentation part I / session chairman, R.J. Faust. Introducing the ORSANCO robot monitor / E.J. Cleary ; Instrumentation for continuous analysis of constituents in water -- a review / Robert H. Jones and R.J. Joyce ; A new portable instrument for the continuous automatic collection of water samples / H.D. Brailsford and J.S. Beach ; Monitoring stream quality / Robert J. Baker ; Automatic instrumentation for water analysis / Earl J. Serfass and G.W. Schneider ; Discussion part I. -- Instrumentation Part II / session chairman, Richard S. Green. Pollution control by continuous dissolved oxygen analysis and associated instruments / William S. Dixon ; Recent advances in the continuous recording of the electrical conductivity of surface waters / Richard J. Kidder ; Automatic surveillance -- an operating system / B.W. Parker ; Continuous monitoring of radioactive streams / Charles O. Badgett ; Water -- a glassful, a lakeful -- the instrument approach / Al Deutsch ; Analytical measurements for continuous transmission / R.H. Babcock and F.E. Moore ; Automatic continuous flow colorimetric and titrametric analyzers and turbidimeters / Clifford Hach ; Discussion part II -- Data Handling / session chairman Milo A. Churchill. Introduction to the systems concept of an automated data acquisition, transmission, and processing system / Saul Stimler ; Methods of data transmission / M.E. Rogers ; Application of digital data transmission to water monitoring data / Adam Lender ; A new medium for low cost recording / David R. Webster ; An information storage and retrieval system in the field of water quality / Donald S. Licking ; Summary of symposium / G.A. Rohlich.