Item talk:Q228779

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oklahoma-texas-water-science-center/science/national-water-quality-assessment-project-0",
 "headline": "National Water-Quality Assessment Project in Texas - Groundwater Activities",
 "datePublished": "August 14, 2018",
 "author": [
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     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "MaryLynn Musgrove",
     "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/marylynn-musgrove",
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     "text": "Groundwater monitoring planned for Texas over the next decade includes"
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     "text": "Analytical methods will be used to measure concentrations as low as economically and technically feasible. The resulting data will be used to detect subtle changes in groundwater quality, providing an early warning system of sorts before any appreciable changes occur. A subset of the wells will be sampled for microbial contaminants."
   },
   {
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     "text": "What is the status of the Nation\u2019s water quality and is it getting better or worse?"
   },
   {
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     "text": "Wells will be sampled once for"
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     "text": "The USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project was established by Congress in 1992 to answer the following question:"
   },
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     "text": "Since 1992, NAWQA has been a primary source of nationally consistent data and information on the quality of the Nation\u2019s streams and groundwater. Data and information obtained from objective and nationally consistent water-quality monitoring and modeling activities provide answers to where, when, and why the Nation\u2019s water quality is degraded and what can be done to improve and protect it for human and ecosystem needs. For NAWQA\u2019s third decade (2013\u201323), a new strategic Science Plan has been developed that describes a strategy for building upon and enhancing the USGS\u2019s ongoing assessment of the Nation\u2019s freshwater quality and aquatic ecosystems."
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     "text": "At the Texas Water Science Center (TXWSC), NAWQA activities focus on two main areas: surface water and groundwater."
   },
   {
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     "text": "NAWQA will also develop a new network that will sample 60 public supply wells to represent depths deeper than those tapped by domestic wells in the Coastal Lowlands, Texas Coastal Uplands, and Mississippi Embayment aquifer system across Texas and other Gulf Coast States."
   },
   {
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     "text": "NAWQA is the only Federal program that assesses the status of the Nation\u2019s groundwater quality and reports on how these conditions are changing over time."
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     "text": "GROUNDWATER ACTIVITIES"
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   "name": "Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center",
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