Calculating Required Purification Effort to Turn Source Water Into Drinking Water Using an Adapted CCME Water Quality Index

Abstract The 2000 European Union Water Framework Directive (WFD) states that “Member States shall ensure the necessary protection for bodies of water identified with aim avoiding deterioration in their quality order to reduce level purification treatment required production drinking water.” However, it does not specify how evaluate or quantify this treatment. We propose a novel index (WQI) prepare from source water. It is based on WQI Canadian Council Ministers Environment (CCME WQI). Our compares measured contaminant concentrations guidelines and any exceedance weighted by measure resilience processes, which possible CCME WQI. Furthermore, accommodates varying sampling frequencies are characteristic ongoing monitoring program. These adaptations make our robust sensitive relevant changes quality. calculated scores Rhine Meuse found no general decrease levels since introduction WFD.