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Development of Source and Treated Water Quality Indicators for drinking water in Canada from conceptual design to methodological development D'Costa, Laura Geology. Engineering, Sanitary and Municipal. Engineering, Environmental. In September 2005, Health Canada took on the development of a Source Water Quality Indicator for Canada. The main objective was to develop a methodology by which source water quality could be linked to public health, the environment, society, and economy; and measured, tracked, and reported in the form of an indicator for decision making. A Treated Water Quality Indicator was also introduced to bridge the gap between source water quality and human health. With Federal/Provincial/Territorial and academic support, research into the approach and development of a conceptual design, parameter selection rationale, and two tools for the indicator calculations, along with recommendations for future work were completed. The tools developed included a modified Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment water quality index calculator, and a Treatability Ranking tool (that determined the complexity of treatment required to achieve safe drinking water). The results of this project are described herein. 2013-11-07T19:03:07Z 2013-11-07T19:03:07Z 2008 2008 Thesis Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-01, page: 0328. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27972 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-19013 en 146 p. application/pdf University of Ottawa (Canada)