Water Quality Indices
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| Langue: | Anglais |
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Amsterdam, Nederlands :
Elsevier Science & Technology Books,
[2012?].
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| Résumé: | This book covers water quality indices (WQI) in depth - it describes what purpose they serve, how they are generated, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and how to make the best use of them. It is a concise and unique guide to WQIs for chemists, chemical/environmental engineers and government officials. Whereas it is easy to express the quantity of water, it is very difficult to express its quality because a large number of variables determine the water quality. WQIs seek to resolve the difficulty by translating a set of a large number of variables to a one-digit or a two-digit numeral. They are essential in communicating the status of different water resources in terms of water quality and the impact of various factors on it to policy makers, service personnel, and the lay public. Further they are exceedingly useful in the monitoring and management of water quality. With the importance of water and water quality increasing exponentially, the importance of this topic is also set to increase enormously because only with the use of indices is it possible to assess, express, communicate, and monitor the overall quality of any water source. Provides a concise guide to WQIs: their purpose and generation Compares existing methods and WQIs and outlines strengths and weaknesses Makes recommendations on how the indices should be used and under what circumstances they apply |
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Table des matières:
- P. 3
- Part I: Water Quality Indices Based Predominantly on Physico-chemical Characteristics
- P. 3Chapter 1 - Why Water-Quality Indices
- P. 9
- Chapter 2 - Approaches to WQI Formulation
- P. 25
- Chapter 3 - 'Conventional' Indices for Determining Fitness of Waters for Different Uses
- P. 63
- Chapter 4 - Combating Uncertainties in Index-based Assessment of Water Quality: The Use of More Advanced Statistics, Probability Theory and Artificial Intelligence
- P. 67
- Chapter 5 - Indices Based on Relatively Advanced Statistical Analysis of Water-Quality Data
- P. 79
- Chapter 6 - Water-Quality Indices Based on Fuzzy Logic and Other Methods of Artificial Intelligence
- P. 119
- Chapter 7 - Probabilistic or Stochastic Water-Quality Indices
- P. 127
- Chapter 8 - 'Planning' or 'Decision-Making' Indices
- P. 155
- Chapter 9 - Indices for Assessing Groundwater Quality
- P. 175
- Chapter 10 - Water-Quality Indices of USA and Canada
- P. 187
- Chapter 11 - WQI-Generating Software and a WQI-based Virtual Instrument
- P. 207
- Part II: Water Quality Indices Based On Bioassessment
- P. 207
- Chapter 12 - Water-Quality Indices Based on Bioassessment: An Introduction
- P. 219
- Chapter 13 - The Biotic Indices
- P. 249
- Chapter 14 - Indices of Biological Integrity or the Multi-metric Indices
- P. 337
- Chapter 15 - Multivariate Approaches for Bioassessment of Water Quality
- P. 353
- Part III: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
- P. 353
- Chapter 16 - Water-Quality Indices: Looking Back, Looking Ahead