Item talk:Q229019

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oklahoma-texas-water-science-center/science/national-water-quality-assessment-project-texas",
 "headline": "National Water-Quality Assessment Project in Texas - Surface Water Activities",
 "datePublished": "May 29, 2018",
 "author": [
   {
     "@type": "Person",
     "name": "MaryLynn Musgrove",
     "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/marylynn-musgrove",
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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": "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 two wadeable stream sites, ecological sampling of algal, macroinvertebrate, and fish communities will be sampled annually."
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     "text": "SURFACE-WATER ACTIVITIES"
   },
   {
     "@type": "TextObject",
     "text": "The USGS National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project was established by Congress in 1992 to answer the following question:"
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   {
     "@type": "TextObject",
     "text": "Each of these sites will be sampled between 6 and 24 times per year, every year for"
   },
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     "text": "Five NFSN monitoring sites are planned for Texas:"
   },
   {
     "@type": "TextObject",
     "text": "NAWQA will characterize the status and trends of surface-water quality and aquatic ecosystems by monitoring ambient water-quality and ecological conditions through a National Fixed Site Network (NFSN). NFSN data, as well as data collected by State and other agencies, including various agencies in Texas, support the development and refinement of USGS regional water-quality models such as ones that can be used to estimate nutrient loads in Texas\u2019 river systems delivered to the Gulf of Mexico by Texas\u2019 rivers and streams."
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   {
     "@type": "TextObject",
     "text": "What is the status of the Nation\u2019s water quality and is it getting better or worse?"
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   "name": "Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center",
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