Water Quality in the Borcea River

             All living things need water. Monitoring the changes of the river is important and the data collected can help to make determinations about water quality. Water quality is the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of water.

The Blue Danube Project team has chosen some basic measurements in order to investigate Water Quality. They are pH (a measure of the acid content of water), water temperature, transparency (the degree to which light penetrates into water), dissolved oxygen, nitrates, nitrites, alkalinity (the ability of water to neutralize acids), total hardness (the sum of the calcium and magnesium concentrations), ammonium and phosphorus (as phosphate). The Borcea River has had good water quality for the indicators tested.