Water quality management

W. W. Eckenfelder, Jr., Principles of Water Quality Managements CBI Publishing, Boston, Mass., 1980. 

It is clear that water quality management of the Great Lakes has resulted in a number of successes. However, major problems remain or will arise continually to test the management system and its capability. Some of these issues are summarized briefly below. 

Straskraba M, Tundisi JG, Duncan A (1993) State-of-the-art of reservoir limnology and water quality management. Hydrobiologia 504 213-288... 

Kennedy RH (1999) Basin-wide considerations for water quality management Importance of phosphorus retention by reservoirs. Intemat Rev Hydrobiol 84 557-566... 

Matthies M, Berlekamp J, Lautenbach S, Graf N, Relmer S (2006) System analysis of water quality management for the Elbe river basin. Environ Modell Softw 21 1309-1318... 

Kuo JT, Wang YY, Lung WS (2006) A hybrid neural-genetic algorithm for reservoir water quality management. Water Res 40 1367-1376... 

FAO (2000) Water quality management and pollution control in the near east an overview. Paper presented at the regional workshop on water quality management and pollution control... 

Griffith LM, Ward RC, McBride GB, Loftis JC. 2001. Data analysis considerations in producing comparable information for water quality management purposes. Available at http //water.usgs.gOv/wicp/acwi/monitoring/pubs/tr/nwqmc0101.pdf... 

Asano, T. and Levine, A.D., Wastewater Reclamation, Recycling and Reuse An Introduction. Chapter 1 of Wastewater Reclamation and Reuse, ed. Takashi Asano, Vol. 10, Water Quality Management Library, p 1-56, Technomic Publishing, PA., 1998. 

Deposited by countless private citizens, moreover, lawn care toxins have also proven far more difficult to measure and far more resistant to traditional techniques of pollution control. The political momentum for water quality regulation lags far behind this changing land-use reality. The shift in the last few years to decentralized decision-making that allowed for the implementation of the Clean Water Act, for example, has not come to terms with this change. In this case, the Clean Water Act mandates the creation of total maximum daily load (TMDL) criteria, standards for cleaning up nonpoint sources such as farms, suburban developments, and other nonindustrial sites. These standards are drawn up by water quality management committees. 

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), CFCs, petroleum products, and dioxin are major toxic contaminants in air (Section 3.3.2), soil (Section 3.5.3), and also in water. The readers are referred to Sections 3.3.2 and 3.5.3 for details about PCB characteristics, health effects, treatment technologies, and so on. For water quality management, they have been included in the list of the USEPA priority pollutants [86]. 

Another factor that must be considered in the NPDES program is the receiving water body. The CWA requires states to classify each water body based on its actual or potential use. Water quality standards are then developed for each classification. Once this process is complete, water quality management plans are written to keep dischargers within these limits. 

Thomann, R.V., J.P. Connolly, and T.F. Parkerton. 1992. An equilibrium model of organic chemical accumulation in aquatic food webs with sediment interaction. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 11 615-629. Thurston, R.V. and P.C. Gehrke. 1993. In Fish Physiology, Toxicology, and Water Quality management. Proceedings of an International Symposium, Sacramento, California, USA, September 18-20,1990. R.C. Russo and R.V. Thurston, Eds., p. 95. Environmental Research Laboratory Office of Research and Development. EPA, Athens, Georgia. EP/600/R-93/157. 

PCD (Pollution Control Department). 2004. The state of water pollution year 2003. Water Quality Management Bureau, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, ISBN 974-9669-31-32. 

Rayment, G.E., Simpson, B.W., 1993. Pesticide audit for the Condamine-Balonne-Culgoa Catchment . In Water Quality Management in the Condamine-Balonne-Culgoa Catchment Land Use, Fertiliser Use, Pesticide Audit and Water Quality Issues, Monitoring and Available Information. August 1993. Condamine-Balonne Water Committee. 

Kelley RA, Spofford WO, Jr. 1977. Application of an ecosystem model to water quality management The Delaware estuary. In Hall CAS, Day JW, editors. Ecosystem modeling in theory and practice. New York (NY) John Wiley, 707 p. 

A major portion of our water-based recreational activities occurs in the tliousands of lakes, reservoirs, and otlier small, relatively quiescent bodies of water. Tlie ecosystems of lakes tlu-oughout tlie world are of primary concern in water quality management. Tlie lakes and reservoirs vary from small ponds and dams to the magnificent and monumental large lakes of tlie world such as Lake Superior (one of the Great Lakes) and Lake Baikal in tlie Soviet Union, the deepest lake in the world (1620 m 5310 ft). 

Marino, 2006 NRC, 1993, 2000). At the national scale, policy makers and water-quality managers often did not consider or accept the evidence for nitrogen control of eutrophication in coastal marine ecosystems, in part because of the political legacy left from heated debates in the 1960s and 1970s over whether phosphorus or carbon caused eutrophication in lakes (Howarth and Marino, 2006 NRC, 2000). Some... 

The Canada Water Act empowers the Minister of the Environment to conclude agreements with the provinces on water resource management and water quality management. Drinking water and recreational water quality standards are set by Health Canada. 

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