The symposium on Water Pollution Assessment: Automatic Samplingand Measurement was presented at the Seventy-seventh Annual Meetingof the American Society for Testing and Materials held inWashington, D.C., 23—28 June 1974. Committee D19 on Water sponsoredthe symposium. D. G. Ballinger, Environmental Protection Agency,and M. W. Skougstad, Analytical Methods Research WRD, presided assymposium co-chairmen.