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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 parameters in a river very rarely exceed their guidelines. Conversely, water quality is rated poor when parameters usually exceed 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. Supplemental Information Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators - Home page: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Data table – Federal trend data (CSV; 216 kB)	CSV		https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/csv/cesindicators/water-quality-canadian-rivers/2019/FedTrendData.csv
Data table – Federal water quality index scores (CSV; 470 kB)	CSV		https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/csv/cesindicators/water-quality-canadian-rivers/2019/FedWQIScores2019.csv
Data table – Table descriptions (CSV; 10.8 kB)	CSV		https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/csv/cesindicators/water-quality-canadian-rivers/2019/TableDescriptions.csv
Data table – Variable information (CSV; 16.5 kB)	CSV		https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/csv/cesindicators/water-quality-canadian-rivers/2019/VariableInformation.csv
Data table – Federal raw data (CSV; 49.2 kB)	CSV		https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/eccc/documents/csv/cesindicators/water-quality-canadian-rivers/FedRawData.csv
Water quality in Canadian rivers – English	HTML		https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-indicators/water-quality-canadian-rivers.html
Data sources and methods – English	HTML		https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/environmental-indicators/water-quality-canadian-rivers.html#DSM
Water quality in Canadian rivers – French	HTML		https://www.canada.ca/fr/environnement-changement-climatique/services/indicateurs-environnementaux/qualite-eau-cours-eau-canadiens.html
Data sources and methods – French	HTML		https://www.canada.ca/fr/environnement-changement-climatique/services/indicateurs-environnementaux/qualite-eau-cours-eau-canadiens.html#DSM

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