The aims and objectives of NIEA with regard to water quality is ‘To maintain or improve quality in surface waters and waters in underground strata as required by national policy, EC directives and international agreements and to generally manage river, estuarine and coastal waters to be at least “good” under the adopted classification schemes with no downward movement between classes’. NIEA require an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer to contribute to the agency's strategic objectives.

The aims and objectives of NIEA with regard to water quality is ‘To maintain or improve quality in surface waters and waters in underground strata as required by national policy, EC directives and international agreements and to generally manage river, estuarine and coastal waters to be at least “good” under the adopted classification schemes with no downward movement between classes’. NIEA require an Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer to contribute to the agency's strategic objectives.