Water Quality Portal

The Water Quality Portal (WQP) is a cooperative service sponsored by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC). It serves data collected by over 400 state, federal, tribal, and local agencies. Water quality data can be downloaded in Excel, CSV, TSV, and KML formats. Fourteen site types are found in the WQP: aggregate groundwater use, aggregate surface water use, atmosphere, estuary, facility, glacier, lake, land, ocean, spring, stream, subsurface, well, and wetland. Water quality characteristic groups include physical conditions, chemical and bacteriological water analyses, chemical analyses of fish tissue, taxon abundance data, toxicity data, habitat assessment scores, and biological index scores, among others. Within these groups, thousands of water quality variables registered in the EPA Substance Registry Service (https://iaspub.epa.gov/sor_internet/registry/substreg/home/overview/home.do) and the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (https://www.itis.gov/) are represented. Across all site types, physical characteristics (e.g., temperature and water level) are the most common water quality result type in the system.
The Water Quality Exchange data model (WQX; http://www.exchangenetwork.net/data-exchange/wqx/), initially developed by the Environmental Information Exchange Network, was adapted by EPA to support submission of water quality records to the EPA STORET Data Warehouse [USEPA, 2016], and has subsequently become the standard data model for the WQP.
Contributing organizations:

ACWI

The Advisory Committee on Water Information (ACWI) represents the interests of water information users and professionals in advising the federal government on federal water information programs and their effectiveness in meeting the nation's water information needs.

ARS

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief in-house scientific research agency, whose job is finding solutions to agricultural problems that affect Americans every day, from field to table. ARS conducts research to develop and transfer solutions to agricultural problems of high national priority and provide information access and dissemination to, among other topics, enhance the natural resource base and the environment. Water quality data from STEWARDS, the primary database for the USDA/ARS Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) are ingested into WQP via a web service.

EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) gathers and distributes water quality monitoring data collected by states, tribes, watershed groups, other federal agencies, volunteer groups, and universities through the Water Quality Exchange framework in the STORET Warehouse.

NWQMC

The National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC) provides a national forum for coordination of comparable and scientifically defensible methods and strategies to improve water quality monitoring, assessment, and reporting. It also promotes partnerships to foster collaboration, advance the science, and improve management within all elements of the water quality monitoring community.

USGS

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) investigates the occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution, and movement of surface waters and ground waters and disseminates the data to the public, state, and local governments, public and private utilities, and other federal agencies involved with managing the United States' water resources. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: Website Pointer for Water Quality Portal. File Name: Web Page, url: https://www.waterqualitydata.us/ The Water Quality Portal (WQP) is a cooperative service sponsored by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC). It serves data collected by over 400 state, federal, tribal, and local agencies. Links to Download Data, User Guide, Contributing Organizations, National coverage by state.

水质量门户（WQP）是一项由美国地质调查局（USGS）、环境保护局（EPA）及国家水质量监测委员会（NWQMC）共同赞助的合作服务。该服务汇聚了超过400个州、联邦、部落和地方机构收集的数据。水质量数据可下载为Excel、CSV、TSV和KML格式。WQP中包含十四种站点类型：综合地下水利用、综合地表水利用、大气、河口、设施、冰川、湖泊、陆地、海洋、温泉、溪流、地下、井和湿地。水质量特性组包括物理条件、化学和细菌学水质分析、鱼类组织化学分析、物种丰度数据、毒性数据、栖息地评估得分以及生物指数得分等。在这些组别中，代表数千个已登记于美国环境保护局物质注册服务（https://iaspub.epa.gov/sor_internet/registry/substreg/home/overview/home.do）和综合分类信息系统（https://www.itis.gov/）的水质量变量。在所有站点类型中，物理特性（例如，温度和水位）是系统中最常见的质量结果类型。

水质量交换数据模型（WQX；http://www.exchangenetwork.net/data-exchange/wqx/），最初由环境信息交换网络开发，经美国环境保护局（USEPA）改编以支持向EPA STORET数据仓库提交水质记录[USEPA, 2016]，并随后成为WQP的标准数据模型。

贡献机构：

ACWI

水资源信息咨询委员会（ACWI）代表水资源信息用户和专业人士的利益，就联邦水资源信息项目及其满足国家水资源信息需求的有效性向联邦政府提供建议。

ARS

农业研究服务局（ARS）是美国农业部的主要内部科学研究机构，其任务是寻找解决影响美国人民日常生活的农业问题的解决方案，从田间到餐桌。ARS进行研究以开发并转让解决方案，解决影响国家高优先级农业问题，并提供有关自然资源基础和环境的信息访问和传播。STEWARDS数据库中的水质量数据，作为美国农业部/ARS保护效果评估项目（CEAP）的主要数据库，通过网络服务被纳入WQP。

EPA

环境保护局（EPA）通过水质量交换框架在STORET仓库中收集和分发各州、部落、流域团体、其他联邦机构、志愿者团体和大学收集的水质监测数据。

NWQMC

国家水质量监测委员会（NWQMC）提供了一个全国性的论坛，用于协调可比且具有科学依据的方法和策略，以改善水质量监测、评估和报告。它还促进伙伴关系，以促进合作、推进科学，并提高水质量监测社区各要素的管理水平。

USGS

美国地质调查局（USGS）调查地表水和地下水的发生、数量、质量、分布和运动，并向公众、州和地方政府、公共和私营公用事业以及其他涉及管理美国水资源的相关联邦机构发布数据。

资源信息：

资源标题：水质量门户网站指针。文件名：网页，网址：https://www.waterqualitydata.us/

水质量门户（WQP）是由美国地质调查局（USGS）、环境保护局（EPA）及国家水质量监测委员会（NWQMC）共同赞助的合作服务。该服务汇聚了超过400个州、联邦、部落和地方机构收集的数据。提供了数据下载链接、用户指南、贡献机构和按州划分的全国覆盖范围的链接。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

Water Quality Portal是一个综合性的水质数据平台，提供多种格式的数据下载，覆盖广泛的水体类型和水质特征，旨在为地方、区域和国家层面的分析和决策提供支持。