Abstract
The water quality of water bodies in Huasteca Potosina was assessed by the National Sanitation Foundation Water Quality Index (NFS WQI) depending on nine water quality parameters include physical, chemical, and biological properties. The water quality obtained at the sampling site 50-90 in the NSF-WQI range shows the medium quality. Results revealed that the Moctezuma River in Tanquian de Escobedo has low water quality with a score of 50, the Tancuilin and Axtla Rivers have good water quality, and the Moctezuma River (Tampamolón Corona), Amajac River, Valles River, Panuco River, Patitos Lagoon, Plan de Iguala Lagoon were all located in medium water quality. This indicates that the water quality of the Huasteca Potosina is irregular, due to the presence of contaminating agents coming from fertilizers, pesticides, domestic water, and residual water from the communities adjacent to the rivers and lagoons, causing an environmental impact to the aquatic ecosystems of the place. However, this research shows the importance of making use of the water quality index in this region, this to relate the environmental impacts responsible for the contamination of surface water and interpret the experimental data of this water quality monitoring to facilitate decision making and consider frequent monitoring of the quality of water bodies in the Huasteca Potosina.
Highlights
The Huasteca Potosina is in the hydrological regionThe state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is divided into four zones: Altiplano, Centre, Media, and Huasteca
Each participant made the curve they thought represented the variation in water quality caused by the variables' level of contamination. These curves were known as "Functional Relations" or "Function Curves" [6,7].This study aims to evaluate the water quality status of water bodies of Huasteca Potosina based on National Sanitation Foundation (NSF)-Water Quality Index (WQI)
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Summary
The Huasteca Potosina is in the hydrological regionThe state of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, is divided into four zones: Altiplano, Centre, Media, and Huasteca. The Huasteca is in the lower portion, where a good number of runoffs are generated, tributaries that, in some way, are of great importance for the Panuco River. This river originates in the State of Mexico, enters the Sierra Madre Oriental on a rugged topography, which is more notable as the current descends, until the confluence of the Tempoal and Tampaón rivers. It receives the name of the river Panuco and continues with that designation until its mouth in the
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