Title
Grey Clustering Method for Water Quality Assessment to Determine the Impact of Mining Company, Peru
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Science and Information Organization
Abstract
Mining operations have a significant impact on environment, where the quality of water is an important affected issue that need to be controlled. In that way, the Grey Clustering Method based on center-point triangular whitenization weight (CTWF), is an artificial intelligence criterion that evaluates water samples according to selected parameters, in order to realize an effective water quality assessment. In the present study, the analysis is made on the Crisnejas River Basin, by using fifteen monitoring points based on an investigation realized by the National Water Authority (ANA) in 2019, based on the Peruvian law (ECA) about water quality standards. The results reveal that almost all of the monitoring points on the Crisnejas River Basin were classified as “irrigation of vegetables unrestricted”, but only one point was classified as “animal drink”, which is ubicated in an urbanized area. This implies that mining discharges are being well treated by the company, but another deal is the contamination generated in towns. Further, the present study might be helpful to audit processes made by the state or companies, to justify the quality of surface waters using a more accurate methodology.
Start page
557
End page
564
Volume
12
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85105827919
Source
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
ISSN of the container
2158107X
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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