Methods for monitoring marine waterbody sustainability at discharge sites

Abstract

Described are methods for monitoring marine water-body sustainability at a site of discharge of water into the water-body. Typically, the discharge of water occurs at a discharge of streams, rivers, water purification plants, water desalination plants, power plants, and discharge of oil refineries. The methods provide for daily, quarterly, as well as annual monitoring of water-body quality to ensure sustainability. The methods typically include establishing monitoring sites at a plurality of designated distances from the site of discharge, at a plurality of designated depths at the monitoring sites, and obtaining samples from the water-body at the monitoring sites. Interrogating the obtained samples for physical and chemical monitoring, biological monitoring, biochemical and organic monitoring, microbial monitoring, and phylogenetic analysis, as well as monitoring the sites for marine observational surveys, helps establish the marine water-body sustainability at a site of discharge.

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