Is water testing related to environmental monitoring?
Water testing or monitoring is one type of environmental monitoring. Environmental monitoring and biomonitoring are linked because both are ways to measure exposure to chemicals. Biomonitoring tests human tissues to discover what is inside the human body. Environmental monitoring is a way to test for outside or external exposures to chemicals. The samples that are tested in environmental monitoring include water, food, and soil. Some of the same advances that are making biomonitoring easier and less expensive are having the same effect on water monitoring and other types of environmental monitoring. If biomonitoring shows an exposure in humans, environmental monitoring to determine where and how the exposure occurred can be an important additional step.
