EVROPSKE SVESKE 2018/7: MONITORING PODZEMNIH I POVRŠINSKIH VODA – EU STANDARDI I SISTEM ZAŠTITE VODA U SRBIJI
EUROPEAN VOLUMES 2018/7: GROUND AND SURFACE WATER MONITORING - EU STANDARDS AND WATER PROTECTION SYSTEM IN SERBIA

Author(s): Vesna Ristić Vakanjac, Mirjana Bartula, Darja Žarković
Subject(s): Economy, Governance
Published by: Evropski Pokret u Srbiji
Keywords: water monitoring; Serbia
Summary/Abstract: When we talk about water monitoring in the broadest sense, we can say that it is continuous, continuous and systematic monitoring of quantitative and/or qualitative parameters of water, whether it is in the atmosphere (monitoring and measurement of meteorological parameters), on the ground (monitoring of the regime of surface waters: rivers, ponds, swamps, lakes, seas and oceans) or in the ground (regime of springs or underground waters). Even in the earliest stages of the development of human civilization, monitoring or in this case observation of natural processes and events was certainly present. Dry caves where they lived were chosen and not occasionally flooded, then in later periods the settlements they built next to larger rivers were outside the inundation zone, etc. Therefore, they knew what the historical maximum water level was and they built facilities for living outside the range of the influence of flood waves, and this information was transmitted orally from generation to generation. With the further development of human society, civilizations are formed that represent a higher level of development of human society and that begin to use writing as a permanent record of information, events, or observed natural processes. Later, in modern society, observation slowly turns into organized monitoring, in this case of water resources, using appropriate instruments for that purpose. In the beginning, it was necessary to hire an observer who would go to the instrument at the same time every day and observe the value of the quantity being measured. Modern instruments make a digital record of the change of any observed parameter, perform simultaneous data archiving and can also simultaneously forward information (data) to the main server where data is archived and backed up. In the framework of monitoring established in this way, it is the person who, in addition to monitoring and checking the functioning of the established monitoring system, can process incoming data and distribute it to end users almost simultaneously.

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