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.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available in bulk | No | Not every information is available for download. Monthly reports containing all the information are available for download in pdf. |
| In an open format | Data is available only in .pdf format. | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | No | Reports are monthly, not weekly. |
| Available free online | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| findable | 2 | It was not very easy, first because I’m not a specialist in the area but also because it was hard to find the reports inside the website. It took some time for me to make sure that INEA was the best source of data. |
| findable_steps | 1) I googled “water quality data rio de janeiro”, 2) I found some reports and references for INEA and the water and sanitation company in Rio de Janeiro (CEDAE), 3) I looked for water quality data in these two websites, found some information in both, 4) I consulted with a specialist in the area to decide which of them I would use as main reference. CEDAE provided more reports, but less useful data for this dimension. | |
| licence_url | https://www.inea.rj.gov.br/ | At the webpage footer there is a mention to a Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 1 | It is difficult to use the data not only because it is only in pdf format but also because you need to understand the specifics of this kind of data. |
| collector_name | INEA - Instituto Estadual do Ambiente | INEA, the state institute for the environment, even though it is a state government department, provides information for cities, including Rio de Janeiro. It is associated to the state secretariat of Environment. |
| characteristics | Fecal coliform, Nitrates, Total Dissolved Solids, Data per water source, Available for entire city | The report doesn’t provide data on arsenic and fluoride levels. All the other are available in pdf per monitoring station in the Guanabara hydrographic region, that includes the city of Rio de Janeiro. |
| location | https://www.inea.rj.gov.br/Portal/MegaDropDown/Monitoram - INEA webpage where you can find monthly reports on water quality per hydrographic regions., https://www.inea.rj.gov.br/cs/groups/public/documents/do - Example of the last report from october 2016. | I didn’t find a open data reference. The only source is these pdf reports. |