Publication Date:
2012-11-10
Description:
Analysis is given to the source of errors, invalidating the results of laboratory studies of water and the standards, norms, and regulations for ensuring the accuracy (validity and accuracy) of methods and results of measurements. The accreditation of laboratories, and their use of the means of measurements and reference standards, admitted for use in accordance with the established order, as well as the participation in interlaboratory comparison tests are shown to be necessary but not sufficient conditions for providing customers with reliable measurement data. To obtain measurement results with an error satisfying the established standards, one should demonstrate conscious and competent attitude toward the measurement problem in accordance with the basic ISO/MEK 17025 standard. It is shown that, under the conditions of increasing value of fresh water in the world, the metrological support of water-environmental control becomes an urgent and specific scientific problem. Therefore, it is proposed to develop water qualimetry—the direction of scientific and applied studies, making it possible to evaluate the characteristics of measurement errors in the characteristics under control to ensure their lying within the established limits with a specified probability. Content Type Journal Article Category Water Resources Use: Economic and Legal Aspects Pages 685-699 DOI 10.1134/S009780781206005X Authors O. M. Rozental, Water Problems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Gubkina 3, Moscow, 119333 Russia Journal Water Resources Online ISSN 1608-344X Print ISSN 0097-8078 Journal Volume Volume 39 Journal Issue Volume 39, Number 6
Print ISSN:
0097-8078
Electronic ISSN:
1608-344X
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