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these impacts from those of climate change. Over time, reference condition may
have to change, as communities will change; eventually unimpacted test sites
will no longer hold communities that are comparable to 'historic' reference
sites. The pressure to build new tools is particularly intense for developing
nations where effective, cheap techniques are urgently required to provide their
populations with clean, sustainable water supplies, such that industrial and
urban development can continue without being compromised by poor quality
natural resources. Even well-developed tools such as RIVACS continue to be
improved and adapted, and a new updated version (RIVPACS 4 River Inverte-
brate Classification Tool) has recently been built (Davy-Bowker et al.
2007c
).
Biomonitoring has travelled a long way in the last century, but the next century
will present many new challenges that will require new techniques and tools if
we are not to let the legacy of our past compromise the future.
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