ACFN DLRM has developed a document called the Water Quality Criteria for Indigenous Use (WQCIU), which contains sediment and surface water quality criteria to protect indigenous water use. This document can be used by industry, Indigenous communities, government, and regulatory agencies to assess possible changes in conditions of surface water and sediment conditions and potential health risk to human and ecological receptors from the releases of contaminants of concerns from oilsands surface mining (and other industrial development) to the Athabasca River, Athabasca Delta and Lake Athabasca.