Adapted Water Quality Indices: Limitations and Potential for Water Quality Monitoring in Africa

A Water Quality Index (WQI) is a tool that describes the overall water quality by combining complex and technical water quality information into a single meaningful unitless numerical value. WQIs predict water quality since they reflect the impact of multiple Water Quality Parameters (WQPs) and allo...
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Autor*in:	Dorothy Khasisi Lukhabi [verfasserIn] Paul Kojo Mensah [verfasserIn] Noble Kwame Asare [verfasserIn] Tchaka Pulumuka-Kamanga [verfasserIn] Kennedy Ochieng Ouma [verfasserIn]

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Sprache:	Englisch

Erschienen:	2023

Schlagwörter:	water quality index water quality parameters physicochemical parameters multivariate statistics benthic macroinvertebrates microbiological parameters

Übergeordnetes Werk:	In: Water - MDPI AG, 2010, 15(2023), 9, p 1736
Übergeordnetes Werk:	volume:15 ; year:2023 ; number:9, p 1736

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DOI / URN:	10.3390/w15091736

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