An apparatus comprising: one or more environmental instruments (512, 514) adapted to collect water quality data, said water quality data comprising data respectively concerning water conductivity and/or potability and/or turbidity and/or pH and/or dissolved solids and/or concentration of impurities and/or concentration of metals and/or concentration of ions, a communication server adapted to communicate with the environmental instruments, a call interval modifying module in communication with a logger adapted to automatically change a call interval for each environmental instrument of the one or more environmental instruments based on the collected water quality data and an environmental condition threshold value for the environmental instrument, wherein said call interval modifying module: determines that a first water quality measurement of an environmental instrument exceeds a threshold value; switches a primary call interval to a secondary call interval for the environmental instrument responsive to determining the first water quality measurement exceeds the threshold value; determines, while the environmental instrument operates according to the secondary call interval, that a second water quality measurement of the environmental instrument does not exceed the threshold value; and switches the secondary call interval to the primary call interval for the environmental instrument responsive to determining the second water quality measurement does not exceed the threshold value; and a web server adapted to display on a visual display device the status of the one or more environmental instruments and/or the collected water quality data to a user, wherein the web server is in communication with the communication server and the visual display device. one or more environmental instruments (512, 514) adapted to collect water quality data, said water quality data comprising data respectively concerning water conductivity and/or potability and/or turbidity and/or pH and/or dissolved solids and/or concentration of impurities and/or concentration of metals and/or concentration of ions, a communication server adapted to communicate with the environmental instruments, a call interval modifying module in communication with a logger adapted to automatically change a call interval for each environmental instrument of the one or more environmental instruments based on the collected water quality data and an environmental condition threshold value for the environmental instrument, wherein said call interval modifying module: determines that a first water quality measurement of an environmental instrument exceeds a threshold value; switches a primary call interval to a secondary call interval for the environmental instrument responsive to determining the first water quality measurement exceeds the threshold value; determines, while the environmental instrument operates according to the secondary call interval, that a second water quality measurement of the environmental instrument does not exceed the threshold value; and switches the secondary call interval to the primary call interval for the environmental instrument responsive to determining the second water quality measurement does not exceed the threshold value; and determines that a first water quality measurement of an environmental instrument exceeds a threshold value; switches a primary call interval to a secondary call interval for the environmental instrument responsive to determining the first water quality measurement exceeds the threshold value; determines, while the environmental instrument operates according to the secondary call interval, that a second water quality measurement of the environmental instrument does not exceed the threshold value; and switches the secondary call interval to the primary call interval for the environmental instrument responsive to determining the second water quality measurement does not exceed the threshold value; and a web server adapted to display on a visual display device the status of the one or more environmental instruments and/or the collected water quality data to a user, wherein the web server is in communication with the communication server and the visual display device.