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- Title
NEW CRITERIA FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT.
- Authors
Yun-Ju Chen; Ching-Pin Tung
- Abstract
New criteria, pollutant load of unit area (PLUA), are developed for sustainable water quality management, which not only avoids degrading water quality but also considers the equity of development between different generations. A simulation-optimization model is established to determine PLUA, in which uses the QUAL2E model to simulate pollutant transport and formulates a linear programming model to optimize the objective of maximal loads (carrying capacity). Two watersheds, the Touchen creek and the Keya creek, both in Taiwan,re taken as case studies. The PLUA criterion is applied to several existing projects which have passed environmental impact assessment (EIA). The results show that if the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park discharges wastewater to the Touchen creek, the total pollutant discharge of 85.6 kg/day exceeds the allocated load. Consequently, a waste reduction of at least 23.4% is required. Although these existing projects have passed EIA, most of them violate the criterion of PLUA and thus contribute to continued degradation of water quality. This study suggests developing PLUA as a part of the process of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) for watershed management plans and then applying it to EIA as a criterion for new project assessment. Furthermore, if carrying capacities of all pollutant discharges and resource uses can be translated into loads per unit of area, an integrated sustainable watershed management plan can be developed.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; WATER quality management; EQUITY (Law); SUSTAINABLE development; WATER; WATERSHEDS; ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis; CASE studies; WATERSHED management
- Publication
Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 2007, Vol 43, Issue 2, p372
- ISSN
1093-474X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00029.x