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Water quality ladder  

Pros & Cons

3 Pros:
•    These fundamental quality classes are helpful for international comparisons
•    Categorisation is very easy to understand
•    Colour scheme is intuitively understandable


3 Cons:
•    Gross categorisation of information
•    No inclusion of chemical reason for low quality in a specific case
•    Red category need not be automatically of unhealthy quality, if river quality is good 

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