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  • Environmental Science
  • Water Resource Management
  • Data Science

Background:

  • The Water Quality Index (WQI) is vital for assessing water quality but often requires customization for specific applications.
  • Existing WQI models may not fully capture regional or seasonal variations in water quality characteristics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a customized WQI by deriving data-driven parameter weights using a random forest approach.
  • To enhance the representation of water quality data by accounting for spatiotemporal variations.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a random forest (RF) model to estimate the importance of eight water quality parameters (temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, electrical conductivity, suspended solids, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, total organic carbon).
  • Analyzed 220,103 data points from 900 monitoring sites in South Korea (2011-2020).
  • Applied variable importance estimation from the RF model to determine parameter weights.

Main Results:

  • Successfully derived spatiotemporal parameter weights reflecting regional and seasonal water quality characteristics.
  • Demonstrated that data-based weights allow for the calculation of a customized WQI.
  • Confirmed significant variations in parameter importance across different datasets.

Conclusions:

  • A data-driven, customized WQI using random forest-derived weights can more accurately represent water quality.
  • This approach offers a flexible and effective method for tailoring WQI to specific purposes and water sources.
  • Future development can further refine WQI models for improved water resource management.