Use of Water Quality Indices for Water Quality Assessment in Small Island State: A Case Study in the Northern Aquifer of Mauritius
Keywords:
Northern Aquifer, water quality index, water quality, groundwater.Abstract
The Water Quality Index (WQI) is a single number that expresses water quality rating by aggregating the measurement of water quality parameters. The aim of this paper is to make an assessment of the Water Quality of the groundwater in the Northern Aquifer in Mauritius by making use of water quality indices using the Brown and his colleagues and the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water Quality Index (CCME WQI) methods. Six water quality parameters were used to determine the WQI at 16 different sampling stations within the northern aquifer. The two methods provided two different ratings;
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