Regulatory Compliance and Guidance Tools Applicable to Transboundary Water Quality Issues

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhea L. Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
Transboundary Water ◽  
Quality Issues

The Difficulties and Promise of an Interagency Public Information Campaign for Water Quality Issues

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (3-5) ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
Michelle Miller
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Public Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Information Campaign ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Voluntary Programs ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Quality Issues ◽  
State And Local

The following case study addresses the difficulties and promise of developing a statewide interagency public information campaign to raise general awareness of water quality issues and governmental programs to address them. Due to only moderate success of voluntary programs to curb nonpoint source pollution, agencies are looking toward information and education programs to motivate the public toward conservation behavior. One of the biggest obstacles in developing an effective information/education program is institutional barriers to interagency cooperation, mirroring difficulties local conservationists encounter in their work to restore and maintain water quality at the watershed level. Cooperation between federal agencies, and resource commitment to public information is necessary at the federal level, as well as state and local levels. Agencies involved to date include the United States Department of Agriculture-Soil Conservation Service; Wisconsin State Departments of Natural Resources, and Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Administration; University of Wisconsin-Extension; Wisconsin Land Conservation Association.

scholarly journals Perceptions and determinants of households' participation in a randomized evaluation on water quality testing and information in southern Ghana

Water Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1206-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Yaw Okyere ◽  
Felix Ankomah Asante
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Randomized Experiment ◽  
Subjective Analysis ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Variable Approach ◽  
Quality Testing ◽  
Quality Issues ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
Southern Ghana

Abstract In this paper, we analyze perceptions and determinants of households' participation in a randomized experiment on water quality testing and information in southern Ghana. Beneficiary households assessed the components of the intervention including its relevance and adequacy in improving understanding of water quality issues. Motivating and constraining factors to participation in the randomized experiment are also assessed. We also estimate the correlates of participation in the intervention. Social and economic benefits derived from the intervention based on perceptions are compared with impacts of the intervention using an instrumental variable approach. We found evidence that subjective analysis estimates of the effects of the intervention are higher than the objective analysis estimates. Households generally perceived the intervention to be relevant in improving their understanding of water quality issues. However, there are differing opinions based on random assignment into either child or adult treatment groups on most- and least-liked attributes of the intervention, and also motivating and constraining factors affecting participation in the intervention. The factors that statistically and significantly influenced participation in the intervention include educational attainment, ethnicity, religious denomination and marital status of the household heads, in addition to the location of residence.

scholarly journals Simulation of the Transboundary Water Quality Transfer Effect in the Mainstream of the Yellow River

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan Zhang ◽  
Jungang Luo ◽  
Jin Zhao ◽  
Jiancang Xie ◽  
Li Yan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Yellow River ◽  
Transfer Effect ◽  
Simulation System ◽  
The Yellow River ◽  
Transboundary Water ◽  
Technical Problems

In order to not only solve the technical problems of quantifying the degree and range of the effect that is caused by the water quality of upstream on that of downstream portions of a river, and of dividing the responsibility of transboundary water pollution, but also to tackle the difficulty in adapting to dynamic changes of the traditional water quality model in terms of practical application, pollutant discharge and water consumption were taken as the main influence factors to build the transboundary water quality transfer effect model. Supported by a comprehensive integration platform, the transboundary water quality transfer effect simulation system of the Yellow River mainstream was constructed. The simulation results show that the concentration decreases exponentially along the range. Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia had a more significant effect of exceeding standard water consumption on pollution, while Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, and Shanxi had a more distinct contribution to the over standard pollution discharge effect. The proposed model and simulation system can provide new methods and instruction for quantifying the degree and range of transboundary water pollution, as well as dividing the responsibility for water environment compensation.

Use of co-created causal loop diagrams and fuzzy-cognitive scenario analysis for water quality management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samaneh Seifollahi-Aghmiuni ◽  
Zahra Kalantari ◽  
Georgia Destouni
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Quality Management ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Coastal Water ◽  
Scenario Analysis ◽  
Water Quality Management ◽  
Coastal Water Quality ◽  
Causal Loop ◽  
Causal Loop Diagrams ◽  
Quality Issues

<p>Current understanding is fragmented of the environmental, economic, and social processes involved in water quality issues. The fragmentation is particularly evident for coastal water quality, impacted both by local land catchment and larger-scale marine pressures and impacts. Research and policy so far has primarily addressed coastal water quality issues from either a land-based or a sea-based perspective, which does not support integrated management of the coupled land-coast-sea systems affecting coastal waters. For example, mitigation measures for improving the severe Baltic Sea eutrophication have mostly focused on land-based drivers, and not yet managed to sufficiently improve coastal or marine water quality. The strong human dimension involved in these water quality issues also highlights a need for participatory approaches to facilitate knowledge integration and drive synergistic strategic planning for sustainable management of coastal water quality. Considering the Swedish water management district of Northern Baltic Proper, including its main Norrström drainage basin and surrounding coastal catchment areas and waters, this study has used a participatory approach to evaluate various land-sea water quality interactions and associated management measures. A causal loop diagram has been co-created with different stakeholder groups, following a problem-oriented system thinking approach. This has been further used in fuzzy-cognitive scenario analysis to assess integrated land-coast-sea system behavior under changing human pressures and hydro-climatic conditions. Results show that synergy of several catchment measures is needed to improve coastal water quality locally, while cross-system/sector cooperation is also needed among all contributing national catchments to mitigate coastal eutrophication at the scale of the whole Baltic Sea. Furthermore, large-scale hydro-climatic changes and long-lived nutrient legacy sources also need to be accounted for in water quality management strategies and measures. System dynamics modelling, based on co-created causal loop diagrams and fuzzy-cognitive scenario analysis like those developed in this study, can support further quantification and analysis of the impacts of various mitigation strategies and measures on regional water quality problems and their possible sustainable solutions.</p>

Soil and Water Quality Issues in Arid Ecosystem and Their Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 235-248
Author(s):  
Dipak Kumar Gupta ◽  
Chandan Kumar Gupta ◽  
Kamla K. Choudhary ◽  
A Keerthika ◽  
M.B. Noor mohamed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Arid Ecosystem ◽  
Quality Issues ◽  
Soil And Water
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