PMID- 34735703
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220308
LR  - 20220308
IS  - 1614-7499 (Electronic)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 29
IP  - 14
DP  - 2022 Mar
TI  - Bottled water quality ranking via the multiple-criteria decision-making process: 
      a case study of two-stage fuzzy AHP and TOPSIS.
PG  - 20437-20448
LID - 10.1007/s11356-021-16931-7 [doi]
AB  - Access to healthy drinking water is vital to human health and development. 
      Bottled water consumption has been on the rise in recent years. As several 
      chemical and bacteriological parameters affect bottled water quality, it is 
      difficult to choose the highest-quality bottled water. Numerous studies have 
      proposed the use of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to overcome 
      this problem. Herein, the two-stage fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) and 
      technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method 
      were adopted to rank different brands of bottled water. The FAHP approach allows 
      working at the intervals of judgment rather than absolute values. TOPSIS is a 
      technique for ordering performance based on its similarity to the ideal solution. 
      An expert panel selected and classified the criteria and sub-criteria. A pairwise 
      comparison questionnaire was then developed, and the weights of the criteria and 
      sub-criteria were assigned by water quality experts. The data on the quality of 
      different brands of water were collected from the Iranian bottled water database. 
      The final data analysis and weight determination of each parameter were performed 
      in Excel and R software Programs. Finally, the CC(i) (value of closeness 
      coefficient) and rank of 71 bottled water brands were calculated, and the best 
      brand was introduced. Among the selected criteria, carcinogenic chemical 
      compounds with the weight of 0.368 were the most important compound in ranking 
      bottled water brands, followed by bacteriologic, pathogenic chemical compounds, 
      chemical compounds important in terms of toxicity, nutritious chemical compounds 
      with a low toxicity level, chemical compounds related to esthetic effects, and 
      chemical compounds without health effects, respectively.
CI  - (c) 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, 
      part of Springer Nature.
FAU - Nabizadeh, Ramin
AU  - Nabizadeh R
AD  - Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran 
      University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
FAU - Yousefzadeh, Samira
AU  - Yousefzadeh S
AD  - Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Semnan 
      University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
AD  - Students' Scientific Research Center (SSRC), Tehran University of Medical 
      Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
FAU - Yaghmaeian, Kamyar
AU  - Yaghmaeian K
AD  - Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran 
      University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
FAU - Alimohammadi, Mahmood
AU  - Alimohammadi M
AD  - Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran 
      University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
FAU - Mokhtari, Zahra
AU  - Mokhtari Z
AD  - Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran 
      University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran. zaaahra.mokhtari@gmail.com.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211104
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
RN  - 0 (Drinking Water)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Drinking Water
MH  - Health Status
MH  - Humans
MH  - Iran
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Water Quality
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Bottled water
OT  - Fuzzy AHP
OT  - MCDM
OT  - TOPSIS
OT  - Water quality
EDAT- 2021/11/05 06:00
MHDA- 2022/03/09 06:00
CRDT- 2021/11/04 17:35
PHST- 2021/04/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2021/10/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2021/11/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/03/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/11/04 17:35 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-021-16931-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-021-16931-7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Mar;29(14):20437-20448. doi: 
      10.1007/s11356-021-16931-7. Epub 2021 Nov 4.