Water quality in Canadian rivers – Water quality at monitoring sites, Canada
The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. 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. These indicators provide information about the state of surface water quality and its change through time, to support water resource management. 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 (Publication)
- 2019-01-30
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-04-18
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada
Nathalie Trudeau
Custodian
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada
Nathalie Trudeau
Nathalie.Trudeau@ec.gc Nathalie.Trudeau@ec.gc.ca
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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environmental indicators, water, local, Canadian rivers, water quality, freshwater quality, water pollution, aquatic life, drainage region, monitoring sites
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local.theme.EC_Information_Category
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Water
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Water - Quality
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local.theme.EC_Content_Scope
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Observation/Measurement
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local.theme.EC_Waf
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Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste
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Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
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local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope
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National (CA)
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Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
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Environmental indicators
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Water
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Water quality
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Rivers
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- Use limitation
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Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
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eng; CAN
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Society
- Begin date
- 2015-01-01
- End date
- 2017-12-31
- Supplemental Information
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Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - Home page: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators
- Reference system identifier
- https://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/ / EPSG:3978 /
- Distribution format
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Name Version Esri Rest
Unknown
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada
Environment and Climate Change Canada
enviroinfo@ec.gc enviroinfo@ec.gc.ca
Distributor
- Fees
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None
- OnLine resource
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-indicators/water-quality-canadian-rivers.html Water quality in Canadian rivers – English
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.canada.ca/fr/environnement-changement-climatique/services/indicateurs-environnementaux/qualite-eau-cours-eau-canadiens.html Water quality in Canadian rivers – French
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://indicators-map.canada.ca/CSVs/en/Water%20quality%20at%20monitoring%20sites.csv Data table – English (CSV; 111 kB)
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://carte-indicateurs.canada.ca/CSVs/fr/Qualit%C3%A9%20de%20leau%20aux%20sites%20de%20suivi.csv Data table – French (CSV; 112 kB)
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://indicators-map.canada.ca/KMZs/en/Water%20quality%20at%20monitoring%20sites.kmz Google Earth – English (KMZ; 27.2 kB)
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://carte-indicateurs.canada.ca/KMZs/fr/Qualit%C3%A9%20de%20leau%20aux%20sites%20de%20suivi.kmz Google Earth – French (KMZ; 27.4 kB)
Metadata
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- b6b6d5a6-bded-4b6e-9e8a-17f6e1b538dc XML
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eng; CAN
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-12-18T21:34:19.591Z
- Metadata standard name
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North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada
Environment and Climate Change Canada
enviroinfo@ec.gc enviroinfo@ec.gc.ca
Author
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French UTF8 eng; CAN UTF8 English UTF8