Water Quality Index (WQI) as a Tool to Assess Waterbody Status: Joint WQI Model Development for River Narva and the Rivers of the Lake Peipsi Basin (Based on Results of the NarvaWatMan Project)

Abstract

One of the aims of The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is that the Member States monitor and assess the ecological and chemical status of all surface water bodies (rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters) and to ensure that they achieve a good status by 2027, with an interim deadline of 2021 [...]

Keywords

• WQI
• WFD
• pollution load
• transboundary rivers
• Narva River
• Baltic Sea