The Ministry of Water Resources is assisting the WQAA in carrying out and coordinating its functions. The Water Quality Review Committees have been constituted in the States with the objective of improving coordination amongst the Central and State agencies, review/assess schemes launched/to be launched to improve quality of water resources, review water quality data analysis and interpretation in order to identify problem areas and develop action plans for improving quality on a sustainable basis, identify hot spots for surveillance/monitoring and to look into other specific miscellaneous issues related to water quality arising from time to time.
Based on the recommendations of Expert Committee and Task Force, a gazette notification on the Uniform Monitoring Protocol for adoption by all the water quality monitoring agencies has been issued in June, 2005. A Working Group has also been constituted by WQAA to deal with issues relating to minimum flows in revering systems.
In accordance with the decisions of WQAA, the Water Quality Monitoring Committee (WQMC) was also constituted to assist the WQAA in its functions. WQMC, in turn, constituted 3 Standing Groups to initiate action considering present status and requirement/modality about action to be taken on related functions of WQAA as per the gazette notification.
In order to make State Water Quality Review Committees more effective and to establish co-ordination among various agencies in the field of water quality monitoring, one workshop at national level and four Workshops at regional level, have been organised. A national level workshop on development of Water Quality Management Plan (WQMP) for State Water Quality Review Committees (WQRCs) was organised.
