scholarly journals A Water Quality Assessment Tool for Decision Making, Based on Widely Used Water Quality Indices

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Mavromatidou Charoula ◽  
Trikilidou Eleni ◽  
Samiotis Georgios ◽  
Pekridis George ◽  
Lefteri Lefteris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Water Quality Assessment ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Expert’S Opinion ◽  
First Results

Cross border areas face common challenges on water management, such as monitoring water demands and quality, because they share a common water basin for covering their water needs. This paper presents the first results of a new, accurate, sensitive and functional tool for assessing water quality, taking under consideration legislation and expert’s opinion, created in frame of the SAVE-WATER, Interreg IPA II Cross-border Cooperation Programme Greece-Albania 2014-2020. The project addresses the open problems and challenges by promoting a transnational common strategy for drinking water management and a shared management policy among three Greek and two Albanian cross border regions.

Evaluation of BASINS/WinHSPF applicability for pollutant loading estimation for a Korean watershed

2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Jeon ◽  
C.G. Yoon ◽  
J.H. Ham ◽  
K.W. Jung
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Water Quality Assessment ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Effective Control ◽  
Watershed Model ◽  
Pollutant Loading ◽  
Model Efficiency

Applicability of a widely accepted watershed-based water quality assessment tool (BASINS) and its associated watershed model (WinHSPF) was evaluated on the Seamangeum watershed in Korea. The study site is the largest polder project area in Korea and its environmental quality has been debated for the last five years. BASINS was found to be a convenient and powerful tool for assessment of watershed characteristics, and provided various tools to delineate the watershed into land segments and river reaches, reclassify land use, and parameterize for WinHSPF simulation. Calibration results were satisfactory showing model efficiency over 0.80 for stream flow, temperature, and dissolved oxygen simulation, and model output for water quality constituents also reasonably matched the observed data. It was demonstrated that calibration with dry-day data for a relatively long period might be adequate to simulate hydrologic characteristics and water quality of the watershed with WinHSPF, and using parameters generated with BASINS for nonpoint source pollution simulation is suggested when enough wet-day monitoring data are not available. The unit-area load of biochemical oxygen demand, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus was 27.8, 48.2, and 4.3 kg/ha/yr, respectively. These values are within the expected range but on the high side of the reported values, which implies that effective control measures are required to protect water quality of the downstream reservoir. Overall, BASINS/WinHSPF was applicable and found to be a powerful tool in pollutant loading estimation from the watershed, and its use in Korea is recommended.

Surface Water Quality Assessment. Case Study: Târnava Mare River, Mediaș Town-Romania

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 70-72
Author(s):  
Cristina Roşu ◽  
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Ioana Piştea ◽  
Carmen Roba ◽  
Mihaela Mihu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Surface Water ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Surface Water Quality ◽  
Water Quality Assessment

Modern State of Zooplankton and Water Quality Assessment in the Selenga River

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
N. G. Sheveleva ◽  
I. V. Arov ◽  
Ye. A. Misharina
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Water Quality Assessment ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Selenga River

Water Quality Assessment in and Around Sandur Taluk, Bellary District, South India

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 325-332
Author(s):  
B.V. Suresh Kumar ◽  
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R.K. Sunil Kumar ◽  
K.N. Prakash Narasimha ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
South India ◽  
Water Quality Assessment
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