Evaluation of Water Quality Using Grey Clustering

Abstract

Evaluation of water environment quality plays an important role in environment science. Because of many factors affecting environment quality, it is a basic task to select rational pattern and make full use of limited information from monitors so as to describe environment quality objectively. In view of the deficiency of the traditional methods, based on the grey theory, a grey clustering model is established to evaluate water quality. The proposed model was applied to assess the water quality of 20 sections in Suzhou River. The evaluation result was compared with that of the traditional method and the reported results in the Suzhou River. It is indicated that the performance of the proposed model is practically feasible in the application of water quality assessment and its application is simple.