Janet,<br><br>Assuming you can&#39;t rephrase, I agree with your original suggestion to hyphenate it as &quot;water-quality-related research.&quot; Definitely not &quot;water quality-related research,&quot; which I would read as &quot;a kind of quality-related research involving water.<br>
<br>Dick<br>
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