Development of a health risk-based weighted water quality index using multivariate statistical analysis: a case study from Taichung's Dajia River Basin, Taiwan.

Conventional water quality indices (WQIs), such as the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Water Quality Index (CCME-WQI), typically assign equal weights to all parameters - a practice that may obscure the health relevance of pollutants…

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