Water quality in Canadian rivers indicators

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada’s performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The data collection contains datasets that track water quality within Canada. The Water quality in Canadian rivers indicators provide a measure of the ability of river water across Canada to support plants and animals. At each monitoring site, water quality data are compared to water quality guidelines to create a rating for the site. If measured water quality is below the guidelines, it can maintain a healthy ecosystem. Water quality at a monitoring site is considered excellent when substances in a river are very rarely measured above their guidelines. Conversely, water quality is rated poor when measurements are usually above their guidelines, sometimes by a wide margin. 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 the supplementary documentation for the data sources and details on how the data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.

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Date Stamp
2021-05-12T05:54:59
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eng; CAN
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Author
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 

Data identification

Date (Creation)
2017-07-19
Date (Publication)
2018-01-31
Status
On going
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Metadata language

fra; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Nathalie Trudeau ( Director, Information and Indicators Division )
Canada

Keywords

Theme

  • environenvironmental indicators, water, national, Canadian rivers, water quality, freshwater, water pollution, aquatic life, drainage region, monitoring sites, human activity, human impacts, pressures, water quality guidelines, surface water

  • Monitoring Station
theme

  • Observation/Measurement

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Water quality

  • Rivers

  • Environmental indicators

  • Water

ECCC Information Category EN

  • Water

  • Water - Quality

Business Functions

  • Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste

  • Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota

Geography

  • National (CA)

external.theme.EC_Branch

  • Strategic Policy Branch

external.theme.EC_Directorate

  • Sustainability Directorate

external.theme.EC_Program_PAA

  • 1.3.1. Sustainability Reporting and Indicators

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  • Unclassified
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

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Use Constraints
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Begin Date
2002-01-01
End Date
2016-12-31

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  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 
 

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Keywords

Monitoring Station Observation/Measurement environenvironmental indicators, water, national, Canadian rivers, water quality, freshwater, water pollution, aquatic life, drainage region, monitoring sites, human activity, human impacts, pressures, water quality guidelines, surface water
Business Functions
Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
ECCC Information Category EN
Water Water - Quality
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Environmental indicators Rivers Water Water quality
external.theme.EC_Branch
Strategic Policy Branch
external.theme.EC_Directorate
Sustainability Directorate
external.theme.EC_Program_PAA
1.3.1. Sustainability Reporting and Indicators
external.theme.GC_Security_Level
Unclassified

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