What data is expected?
Data, measured at the water source, on the quality of water is essential for both the delivery of services and the prevention of diseases. In order to satisfy the minimum requirements for this category, data should be available on level of the following chemicals by water source and be updated at least weekly:
- fecal coliform
- arsenic
- fluoride levels
- nitrates
- TDS (Total dissolved solids)
What data is available
- Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
- Is the data available for free? Yes
- Is the data machine readable? No (n/a)
- Available in bulk? Yes
- Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? No
- Publicly available? Yes(as Panorama da Qualidade das Águas Superficiais no Brasil published by Agência Nacional de Águas)
- Is data in digital form? Yes
- Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
- Does the data exist? Yes
Details
Data is outdated as this is a report from the year 2004.
Other potential but unusable sources:
http://dados.saude.gov.br/dataset/situacao_de_saude/resource/6dda9432-5c16-4aa1-8e30-4114041378b1 (link is broken)
http://bvsms.saude.gov.br/bvs/publicacoes/vigilancia_controle_qualidade_agua.pdf (has only methodological information, but no measurements)
http://www.geoprocessamento.icict.fiocruz.br/svs/agua/atlas.htm (has no pollutant data)
Reviewer comments
Approving submission, while there is national level data, it does look like most of the data might be at the local municipal level.
Contributors
Reviewers
- Nisha Thompson
Submitters
- Augusto Herrmann