Drinking water quality indices: a systematic review

This analysis applied systematic review as a methodology for identifying, analyzing and interpreting data on the use of water quality indices human consumption. Scientific articles were searched in “PubMed”, “Scielo”, “ScienceDirect” “Web Science" databases, using keywords “drinking water” “water index”, with custom interval between 2000 2020. The results indicated 82,573 published articles, 16 them being selected after filtering process. occurrence 11 was verified, including 47 parameters used to assess drinking water, highlighting that pH, Nitrate, Turbidity, Chloride Sulfate most used, cited 10 (62,5%). We suggest future studies seek propose regionalized indicators consumption, order consider local aspects evaluation process determine intervention priorities by health surveillance agencies.