Water quality in Canadian rivers – Water quality at monitoring sites

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.

Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - Home page:

https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

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Date ( RI_367 )
2024-02-29
Date ( RI_366 )
2013-04-18
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators -
Canada
https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators
Status
completed; complété RI_593
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
Canada
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • environmental indicators, water, local, Canadian rivers, water quality, freshwater quality, water pollution, aquatic life, drainage region, monitoring sites
local.theme.EC_Information_Category local.theme.EC_Information_Category ( RI_528 )
  • Water
  • Water - Quality
local.theme.EC_Content_Scope local.theme.EC_Content_Scope ( RI_528 )
  • Observation/Measurement
local.theme.EC_Waf local.theme.EC_Waf ( RI_528 )
  • Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste
  • Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Environmental indicators
  • Water
  • Water quality
  • Rivers
local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope local.place.EC_Geographic_Scope ( RI_525 )
  • National (CA)
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
copyright; droitAuteur RI_602
Use constraints
copyright; droitAuteur RI_602
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
  • Society
Begin date
2020-01-01
End date
2022-12-31
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978 /

Distributor

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  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada -
https://www.canada.ca
Fees
None
OnLine resource
Data sources and methods – English ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

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Data sources and methods – French ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Interactive indicator map – English ( HTTPS )

Application;Web App;eng

OnLine resource
Interactive indicator map – French ( HTTPS )

Application;Web App;fra

OnLine resource
Water quality at monitoring sites, Canada – REST ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Water quality at monitoring sites, Canada – REST ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Water quality at monitoring sites, Canada – WMS ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
Water quality at monitoring sites, Canada – WMS ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

OnLine resource
Water quality in Canadian rivers – English ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
Water quality in Canadian rivers – French ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;fra

OnLine resource
Data table – English (CSV; 145 kB) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
Data table – French (CSV; 148 kB) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;fra

OnLine resource
Google Earth – English (KMZ; 29.2 kB) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;KMZ;eng

OnLine resource
Google Earth – French (KMZ; 30.1 kB) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;KMZ;fra

File identifier
b6b6d5a6-bded-4b6e-9e8a-17f6e1b538dc XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Parent identifier
45c7367c-edb5-4849-ac31-bee5516be00f 45c7367c-edb5-4849-ac31-bee5516be00f
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2024-03-14T19:13:25
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators -
https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators
 
 

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