Prioritization of areas for groundwater monitoring using analytic hierarchy process method in Geographic Information Systems: a case of Mexico

Human Health Risk and Quality Assessment of Spring Water Associated with Nitrates, Potentially Toxic Elements, and Fecal Coliforms: A Case from Southern Mexico

“…To carry out this process, the AHP technique (numerical scale of values ranging from 1 to 9 based on the Saaty scale) was used by means of the TerrSet Weight module in order to make a comparison by pairs, obtain the weights of the factors, and denote their order of importance [53]; these are shown in Table 1. The AHP technique is one of the most applied in studies related to the management of water resources [38,39,54]. Additionally, the consistency ratio (CR) was calculated; the value must be < 0.1 to be considered acceptable [53].…”

“…MCE is a set of techniques (e.g., analytical hierarchical process (AHP)) that are used to select alternatives that best satisfy preferences based on an objective and the analysis of different criteria [36,37]. A high number of worldwide investigations have been conducted, and multi-criteria methods have been implemented on issues related to groundwater management to select optimal sites [38][39][40]. The AHP is a mathematical tool for the spatial evaluation of multiple criteria according to the research objective; the AHP has a lot of applications in groundwater-related research and has been very popular in recent decades because it considers expert opinion [41,42].…”