Water Quality Mapping for Water Management

Abstract

This paper explores how maps can support water quality management as part of a common project between a water management organization (Service Départementale de L’eau du Conseil Général de Haute-Loire - France) and a research laboratory (Centre de Recherche sur l’Environnement et l’Aménagement - Université de Saint-Etienne - France). Visualization tools are proposed to bring together the different stakeholders in the negotiation process for water management. Two fundamental questions are examined here: (1) how do we communicate the different water quality information to the various stakeholders to improve their awareness of the environment; and (2) how could we evaluate the effectiveness of a cartographic visualization system in the process of negotiation between different stakeholders. Alternative methods are proposed here to present and evaluate water quality information in the form of maps.

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“…Geographical Information System (GIS) are meant for resource management and is an efficient decision-making tool however, powered with lots of sophisticated technology it is not ready used by common peoples because of lack of facility to distribute the analyzed information in an efficient manner. In further advancement, Caquard et al, [11], proposed the cartographic representation of water quality mapping information which can propagate the customized result on bases of variation in clientele. With the use of interpolation and extrapolation technique, visual data is put into for correlation and clustering analysis, along with the same gradation of colors are used to represent the level of water quality from lower to higher.…”