Water Environmental Monitoring and Research Center
The Center is the technical center, information center, monitoring network center as well as the personnel training center for water environmental monitoring of the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR), which was formally approved to set up in 1984 by the State Science and Technology Commission of China. It offers technical support and technical service to MWR for its implementation of water environmental monitoring and management. The Center has 24 professionals including PhD's,
 
 professor-senior engineers, senior engineers, engineers, assistant engineers, and technicians. The Center is composed of 3 research divisions and a central laboratory.
 
WB01624_.gif (281 bytes) Dionox 20201 ion chromatiograph for  
determining anions and cations in water
Up to 20 sets of advanced instruments and equipment are in use in the central laboratory, including Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Gas Chromatography, Ion Chromatography, High Performance Liquid Chromatography, UV/VIS Spectrophotometer, Induce Coupled Plasma Emission Spectrometer and so on. The laboratory has passed the metrological accreditation in 1994 in water environmental monitoring at national level. It can provide analytical service in various types of samples, which are water/wastewater, soils/sediments, plants/animals, waste products, air/gases, food and products of commerce. 32 standard reference materials in water environmental monitoring open to be sold in countrywide.Gas Chromatography and High
WB01620_.gif (288 bytes) Performance Liquid Chromatography for  
Measuring the Contents of Organic Compounds
 
WB01624_.gif (281 bytes) Ion Chromatography for Determining  
Anions and Cations in Water
 
WB01620_.gif (288 bytes) Organo DKK automatic BODmeasuring and  
recording instrument for measuring the volume  
or oxygen consumed by breeding or respiration  
of aerobic micro-organisms in water body.
 
WB01624_.gif (281 bytes) Induce Coupled Plasma Emission Spectrometer  
for Measuring Inorganic pollutants
Main Duties and Research Activities
  1. Tocompile monthly communique of the country's water quality and yearbook of the country's water quality.
  2. To be responsible for the quality assurance and quality control among the national water environmental monitoring system in the Ministry of Water Resources; to produce and research standard reference material for the quality assurance and quality control; to organize research fellows to engage in the establishment, test and verification for monitoring and analytical standard methods to water.
  3. To be engaged in the research on the changing regular patterns of the country's or regional water environmental quality and its assessment methods, and to forecast the tendency of water environmental quality.
  4. To research into and develop comprehensive and economical technologies, processes and equipment with high efficiency for wastewater treatment and reuse.
  5. Research and development of water environmental information management system and working out overall protection designing plans for water resource, aquatic environment and water pollution.
  6. Water pollution control and elimination projects on non-point source.
  7. Conducting personal training and providing advisory services on water environment.
  8. Undertaking priority scientific and technical projects and special tasks mandated by the Ministry of Water Resources
Ultra clean room for preparing reference standard.

 
Water Enviromental Monitoring and Research Center 
China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research 
 
Tel. +86-10-68415522-3212,3201 
Fax.+86-10-68425954 
Email: dxp@iwhr.com 
Homepage: http://www.iwhr.com/water_env