Research Article
Assessment of a Physicochemical Indexing Method for Evaluation of Tropical River Water Quality
Table 2
Values of parameters after normalization for
(Pesce and Wunderlin, 2000).
| Class | Normalization factor (Ci)
| I | II | III | IV | V | 100 | 90 | 80 | 70 | 60 | 50 | 40 | 30 | 20 | 10 | 0 |
| Cond (μS/cm) | <750 | <1000 | <1250 | <1500 | <2000 | <2500 | <3000 | <5000 | <8000 | ≤12,000 | >12,000 | DO (mg/L) | ≥7.5 | >7.0 | >6.5 | >6.0 | >5.0 | >4.0 | >3.5 | >3.0 | >2.0 | ≥1.0 | <1.0 | Turb (NTU) | <5 | <10 | <15 | <20 | <25 | <30 | <40 | <60 | <80 | ≤100 | >100 |
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