![]() “We also have fish kills in dry years, with the likes of blue-green algae taking the oxygen out of the water,” he says. An early warning may help reduce the impact. Such a disaster doesn’t have to be a surprise. “Maybe this time that was an effect of too much water running off the landscape.” “The importance of water quality has been quite obvious in recent months with the mass fish kills,” says CSIRO AquaWatch Mission Lead Dr Alex Held. The CSIRO has set itself the goal of providing an accessible near-real-time monitoring and forecasting service – in much the same way the Bureau of Meteorology covers the weather – for key parts of Australia by 2026. That’s why it is the latest addition to the CSIRO’s list of eight core missions. At the same time, it’s becoming dramatically more important to more people in more ways. ![]() ![]() Water quality is getting harder to predict. ![]()
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