Groundwater quality trend and trend reversal assessment in the European Water Framework Directive context: an example with nitrates in Italy.

In Italy, a minimum of 8 years is required to ensure a statistically acceptable assessment, as with fewer data a possible trend can be masked by the white noise (Şen 2016 ; Hu et al. 2020 ) related to several factors, including natural variability or analytical uncertainty.

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