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The Biological Monitoring Working Party (BMWP) score system was introduced in 1980 to provide an index of river water quality for England and Wales based on aquatic macroinvertebrates. The score allocated to each taxon was set by a group of expert river biologists on the basis of their collective experience of the taxon's sensitivity to organic pollution. This paper describes an objective reappraisal...