Status and trends of water quality in the Tafna catchment: a comparative study using water quality indices

Hamlat, Abdelkader; Guidoum, Azeddine; Koulala, Imen

doi:10.2166/wrd.2016.155

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“…Alternative strategies for pollution control of rivers are monitoring of water quality, minimizing waste production, improving sanitation, wastewater treatment plants (WWTP), and increasing public awareness through socialization and education (Halmat et al, 2017;Yudo and Said, 2018). These findings can be used for reference in the water quality management strategy adopted for the Bedadung River to ensure that the river's pollution load does not exceed Class I quality standards.…”

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Simulation for water quality management using system dynamics modeling in the Bedadung Watershed, East Java, Indonesia

Pradana

Novita

Purnomo

2022

J.Degrade.Min.Land Manage.

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The potential for pollution of rivers is influenced by river-water discharge and the distribution of pollution sources. This research aimed to examine recommendations for water quality management in the Bedadung River segment of the Patrang, Sumbersari, and Kaliwates Districts as an urban area of Jember Regency refer to simulations of the total pollution load capacity for 10 years (2016-2026) using a system dynamics modeling. The preparation of a system dynamics modeling used Powersim 5.0 software. It could represent holistic environmental management modeling. The input data were total suspended solid (TSS), biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and the streamflow of the Bedadung River. The model scenarios were the business of usual, moderate, and optimistic scenarios involving environmental and socio-economic aspects. The medium-term and long-term recommendations for water quality management of the Bedadung River based on system dynamics simulation were respectively moderate scenario and optimistic scenario. The strategies of the moderate scenario were application of the best management practice method in agricultural cultivation, improving sanitation and domestic wastewater treatment, implementing clean production in the field of livestock and industry, as well as waste management on riverbanks. These alternative strategies for river water quality management can be used as consideration for protecting surface water sources in urban areas.

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confidence: 99%

Simulation for water quality management using system dynamics modeling in the Bedadung Watershed, East Java, Indonesia

Pradana

Novita

Purnomo

2022

J.Degrade.Min.Land Manage.

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“…Most of the work on the WQIs has been focused on the comparative assessment of various quality indices in surface water bodies [15,20,40,41]. Aleem et al, 2018 [25], investigated groundwater quality for drinking and irrigation purposes in an industrial zone of Pakistan by applying NSF-WQI and spatial analysis.…”

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“…Considering that only a few of the existing studies [5,27] until now discuss the meta-evaluation methodology as this applied in the groundwater bodies of the Megara basin, it is rather hard to comprehensively confirm the results of the present work against previous findings. However, many researchers [15,20,41] have discussed results related to the performance of WQIs in surface water bodies of the Mediterranean region.…”

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Meta-Evaluation of Water Quality Indices. Application into Groundwater Resources

Alexakis

2020

Water

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Until now, there was no simple procedure to test the performance of water quality indices (WQIs) or, in other words, to perform their meta-evaluation. The purpose of this study is to provide a meta-evaluation approach of two widely used WQIs and suggestions for selecting one or both of them for application in groundwater quality assessment as proposed by the European Union. The meta-evaluation concept is based on testing the performance of two widely known WQIs by applying classification of Water Framework Directive (WFD; 2000/60/EC) and Groundwater Directive (GWD; 2006/118/EC) which was used as a reference. The Canadian Council of Ministers of Environment (CCME) and National Sanitation Foundation (NSF-WQI) have been selected for evaluation. These WQIs were applied in an agricultural area of the Mediterranean region where six sub-datasets for an entire hydrological year were available. This study uses all the available water quality data (52 monitoring stations × 2 sampling periods × 15 parameters) which is systematically collected at the area studied. The CCME-WQI is a rather strict index since it estimates statistically significantly lower values than the NSF-WQI. Based on the performance of the examined indices, it is shown that, mostly, the CCME-WQI classification findings are close to those of the GWD.

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“…When comparing the quality values obtained with the seven WQIs studied, it is observed a certain disparity in the ranges obtained. This is because not all the indices weight and classify in the same way (Hamlat et al, 2017). Therefore, the search for a general application should be an objective, since the rating system of any WQI facilitates the understanding by a large number of users.…”

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Analysis of existing water information for the applicability of water quality indices in the fluvial-littoral area of turia and Jucar Rivers, valencia, Spain

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Analysis of existing water information for the applicability of Water Quality Indices in the fluvial-littoral area of Turia and Jucar Rivers, Valencia, Spain. Highlights  First study analysing water quality information of Turia and Jucar River basins.  Applicability of 42 Water Quality Indices (WQIs) in 67 stations was studied.  About 283,023 records of water physicochemical parameters were evaluated.

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Status and trends of water quality in the Tafna catchment: a comparative study using water quality indices

Cited by 36 publications

References 29 publications

Simulation for water quality management using system dynamics modeling in the Bedadung Watershed, East Java, Indonesia

Simulation for water quality management using system dynamics modeling in the Bedadung Watershed, East Java, Indonesia

Meta-Evaluation of Water Quality Indices. Application into Groundwater Resources

Analysis of existing water information for the applicability of water quality indices in the fluvial-littoral area of turia and Jucar Rivers, valencia, Spain

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