The Environmental Protection Administration maintained a high level of enthusiasm from previous participants this year, building on last year’s experience in sponsoring the 2003 World Water Monitoring Day activity, to encourage people to concern about river issues and interest in working together to better understand their rivers. A total of ten training camps were held in Taipei city, Hsinchu city, Taichung City, Chiayi City, Tainan City, Taitung County, Pingtung County Hualien County, Kaohsiung City. During these training camps, we offered a handbook and water monintoring teaching cdrom and a biological index of water quality brocher to each leader. We also build a water monitoring website where leaders can upload their water monitoring data. There are 644 teams, more than 2,500 people, joined this meaningful activity and conducted water monitoring during the period from September 18th to October 18th. This year we adopted biological indicators of fish and invertebrates in addition to the four physical-chemical indicators (DO, pH, water temperature, and turbidity). According to the data report, most teams choosen the down stream as their monitoring site, and these sites surrounding land use were high-density residential areas, factories, and agricultural land. The result of DO is 4 ppm, pH is 7~8, turbidity is 40 JTU and water temperature is 24~30℃. Through this activity questionaires, there are 90% of training leaders satisfy with training camp, more students and residents gained a deeper understanding of water quality and the skills required in water monitoring .At last, we suggest that The EPA and local environmental protection bureaus should organize voluntary river protection teams to monitor rivers regularly and stop illegal behavior.

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