Water Quality Indices (Paperback)

Part 1: Water Quality Indices Based Predominantly on Physico-chemical characteristics

1. Why water quality indices 2. Approaches to WQI formulation 3. Conventional Indices for determining fitness of waters for different uses 4. Combating uncertainities in indice-based assessment of water quality: The use of more advanced statistics, probability theory, and artificial intelligence 5. Indices based on relatively advanced statistical analysis of water quality data 6. Water quality indices based on fuzzy logic and other methods of artificial intelligence 7. Probabilistic or stochastic water quality indices 8. Planning or decision ? making indices 9. Indices for assessing groundwater quality 10. Water quality indices of USA and Canada 11. WQI generating software and a WQI-based virtual instrument

Part 2: Water Quality Indices Based on Bioassessment

12. Water quality indices based on bioassessment: an introduction 13. The biotic indices 14. Indices of biological integrity or the multimetric indices 15. Multivariate approaches for bioassessment of water quality

Part 3: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

16. Water quality indices : Looking back, looking ahead