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Water Quality Indicators - Freshwater quality at monitoring stations for the 2007 to 2009 period, Canada
Dataset Summary
- Creator
- Environment Canada
- Subject Area
- Nature and Environment
- Department Generated Identifier
- Language
- Bilingual (English and French)
- Date Published
- 2012-04-05
- Date Modified
- Frequency
Description
- Description
- The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Freshwater Quality Indicator provides an overall measure of the ability of freshwater bodies to support aquatic life at selected monitoring stations across Canada. It is a water quality guideline-driven tool used to distill large amounts of water quality data at a monitoring station into a single index. Water quality at a monitoring station is considered excellent when ambient water quality does not exceed guidelines at any time for any of all selected parameters. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: static and interactive maps, charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See supplementary documentation for data sources and details on how those data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.
- Keywords
- environmental indicators, water, Canadian Rivers, water quality, freshwater quality, water pollution, aquatic life, drainage region, monitoring stations
- Program URL
- http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=En&n=A073189E-1
- Data Series URL
- http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=En&n=130FFF78-1
- Data Dictionary/Variables List
- Additional Metadata
- Reference for Supplementary Documentation
- http://maps-cartes.ec.gc.ca/indicators-indicateurs/default.aspx?mapId=3&xMin=-17200268.28492363&yMin=4842529.641591634&xMax=-5498653.153107968&yMax=12669696.953842915&lang=en
http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=En&n=5D193531-1
Coverage
- Geographic Region Name
- Canada
- Geographic Bounding Box - Lower Left Corner
- Bounding Box - Upper Right Corner
- Bounding Box - Coordinate Reference System
- Geographic Bounding Box - Dimensions
- Time Period Coverage Start
- Time Period Coverage End
File Information
- Dataset Group Name
- Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI)
- Number of Datasets
- 4
- Files
