Technical Guideline for River and Lake Health Assessment. Country/Territory China Document type Miscellaneous Date 2020 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Water Keyword Freshwater pollution Freshwater resources management Ecosystem preservation Environmental standards Pollution control Standards Protection of environment Geographical area Asia, Asia and the Pacific, East Asian Seas, Eastern Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific Abstract This Technical Guideline for River and Lake Health Assessment (SL / T 793-2020) is a newly formulated standard with 11 Chapters and 4 Appendices. It is formulated to stregthen the protection and management of river basin water ecosystem, and further enhance the technical level and ability of river basin water ecological monitoring and analysis and river lake health assessment. The main technical contents include the principles and workflow of river and lake health assessment, the indicators, grading standards and assessment methods, the investigation and monitoring of river and lake health, the scoring assessment and the preparation of report, etc. Full text Chinese Website www.waizi.org.cn