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. 2024 May 3;10(9):e30552.
doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e30552. eCollection 2024 May 15.

Water quality assessment methods of the highland Andean rivers: A scoping systematic review

Carlos Matovelle  1   2 , María Quinteros  1 , Karen Sofía Quinteros  1 , Karla Jaramillo  1
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Water quality assessment methods of the highland Andean rivers: A scoping systematic review

Carlos Matovelle et al. Heliyon. .

Abstract

Water is a resource that influences sustainable development in different ways in social, economic, and environmental aspects, being the Andes the major provider of this resource. However, they have been affected mainly by anthropogenic activities due to the proximity of settlements in the watersheds, so they tend to have more significant contamination, and their evaluation is essential to mitigate problems for those who consume them. However, despite being a fundamental resource and one of the main contributors of water, it is not so studied, so the present study aims to determine the studies based on the water quality of the high mountain rivers of the Andes by using a PRISMA methodology with the scoping review extension, based on search techniques, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and monitoring tables, in order to maintain a line of research attached to the objective of the study. After using the methodology, ten articles were obtained, which were analyzed after a bibliometric analysis to determine features of interest, such as countries in which the studies were carried out, years of publication, methodologies used, and authors' consensus. High Andean rivers' importance, the need for more studies within these areas, and the lack of suitable indexes for these unique ecosystems are highlighted.

Keywords: Andean rivers; High mountain; Scoping review; Water quality.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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PRISMA-Scoping review flow diagram of water quality in Andean rivers.
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Number of publications on water quality by the first screen using keywords grouped by the database.
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Number of publications selected for water quality PRISMA-ScR research.
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Number of publications selected for water quality PRISMA-ScR research by countries conformed Andean range.
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Number of publications selected for water quality PRISMA-ScR research by the methodology employed.
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Number of publications selected for water quality PRISMA-ScR research by years of publications.
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