The water quality index (WQI) model is a popular tool for evaluating surface water quality. It
uses aggregation techniques that allow conversion of extensive water quality data into a …

Human activities continue to affect our water quality; it remains a major problem worldwide
(particularly concerning freshwater and human consumption). A critical water quality index …

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a nationwide lockdown is imposed in India initially for three
weeks from 24th March to 14th April 2020 and extended up to 3rd May 2020. Due to the …

A variety of water quality indices have been used to assess the state of waterbodies all over
the world. In calculating a Water Quality Index (WQI), traditional methods require the …

Narmada River is considered to be the holy river of the state Madhya Pradesh. A study was
considered for the development of water quality index using eight parameters pH …

Energy poverty is a growing societal challenge that puts the welfare of many European
citizens at risk. Several different indicators have been developed with the objective of …

Rivers are one of the main water resources for agricultural, drinking, environmental and
industrial use. Water quality indices can and have been used to identify threats to water …

Biodiversity is presently a minor consideration in environmental policy. It has been regarded
as too broad and vague a concept to be applied to real‐world regulatory and management …

Some basic principles of additive and multiplicative effects can easily be demonstrated with
the help of two ordinary dice with sides numbered from 1 to 6. Adding the two numbers …

Abstract 'Background'is the concentration of metals in pristine sediment, unaltered by human
activity and 'enrichment'is the extent present-day sediment metal concentrations exceed pre …