Towards Management of Environmental Problems in Egypt

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter M. Haas
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Counter Example ◽  
The Government ◽  
Mediterranean Water

As a poor, developing country, Egypt faces a wide variety of pollution and other environmental problems associated with poverty. In this essay are reviewed the most severe environmental problems currently facing Egypt, as well as the range of policies which the government has assayed in order to manage them. Some of the widespread environmental problems are growing acute. Water pollution is seen as serious, and many new factories are being built without sufficient pollution control. There are real threats to agricultural productivity and public health. While many new institutional and legal steps have been undertaken in the last 7 years, most have failed to curb effectively mounting environmental stresses in the country. A rare counter-example is Mediterranean water quality, which is being helped by activation of UNEP's Mediterranean Action Plan.

Water Pollution Burden and Techniques for Control

2018 ◽  
pp. 146-179
Author(s):  
Kanav Dhir ◽  
Meenakshi Jatayan ◽  
Shakti Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Water Contamination ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Socio Economic Status ◽  
Mitigation Techniques

The enhancements in the socio-economic status of many people has come from the expansion of agricultural and industrial production. But, some of the activities associated with this expansion have adversely affected water quality. This leads to a negative impact on public health, eminence of life, and environment. This chapter sets out to explain the various factors that lead to water contamination and different mitigation techniques to manage them. We need this knowledge so as to develop suitable solutions for a broad range of environmental problems.

scholarly journals Recreational Swimming Benefits of New Hampshire Lake Water Quality Policies: An Application of a Repeated Discrete Choice Model

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Needelman ◽  
Mary Jo Kealy
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
New Hampshire ◽  
Discrete Choice ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Water Pollution Control ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Recreation Benefits

Water pollution control policies generally direct sources (i.e., industry, agriculture) to reduce loadings of certain pollutants. Thus, evaluating the relative net recreation benefits of policies to improve water quality requires establishing a linkage between the sources, the resultant water quality degradation at the affected water bodies, and, ultimately, the effect on recreation behavior. This linkage is rarely present in the empirical literature which is, thus, deficient for water pollution control policy assessment purposes. In this paper, we estimate the relative recreational swimming benefits that may result from controlling point and nonpoint sources of pollution, respectively, in New Hampshire's lakes. We use a repeated discrete choice framework to model swimming behavior as a function of each lake's level of eutrophication, bacteria, and oil and grease. For each pollutant, at each affected lake, we identify which source is responsible for the pollution, and we conduct scenarios controlling each pollution source independently, and then, taken together. Seasonal benefit estimates are presented for each scenario. Coupled with information on the most cost effective means of generating the scenarios, these estimates provide a useful starting point for a quantitative assessment of the net recreation benefits of policies to improve the quality of New Hampshire lakes.

Countermeasure and Research of Jingbo Lake Water Environment Rehabilitation

2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 164-167
Author(s):  
Bao Yuan Pan ◽  
Guo Ting Yang ◽  
Yun Ma ◽  
Yi Bin Ren
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Lake Water ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Large Lakes ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Lakes And Reservoirs

China is a country with a large lakes, with the development of social economy, the water pollution of lakes is more serious, lake’s eutrophication has become the major environmental problems of the China's lakes and reservoirs. This document explains through the investigation and evaluation environment to analyze the current situation and the pollution of Jingbo Lake, and puts forward countermeasures and pollution control environmental protection measures for management of Jingbo Lake, develop and provide technical reference of Jingbo Lake.

Application of Various Space Dimensional Water Quality Model in Different Areas

2014 ◽  
Vol 1010-1012 ◽  
pp. 456-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jia Zhou ◽  
Li Liu ◽  
Li Min Ma
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Water Quality Model ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Quality Model ◽  
Efficient Tool ◽  
Quality Planning ◽  
Dimension One ◽  
Control Water

The water quality model is an efficient tool for water pollution control, water quality planning and environmental management. In accordance with the need of prediction, analysis and management of water quality, this article presents different application conditions for various water quality model, including zero-dimension, one-dimension, two-dimension and multidimensional. Then the application of water quality model in different areas are summarized here.

scholarly journals Spatio-temporal variation analysis of hydrochemical characteristics in the Luanhe River Basin, China

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1332-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Xie ◽  
Xuyong Li ◽  
Huiliang Wang ◽  
Wenzan Li
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Temporal Variation ◽  
River Water ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Hydrochemical Characteristics ◽  
Water Pollution Control ◽  
Luanhe River Basin

The analysis of river pollution and assessment of spatial and temporal variation in hydrochemistry are essential to river water pollution control in the context of rapid economic growth and growing pollution threats in China. In this study, we focused on hydrochemical characteristics of the Luanhe River Basin (China) and evaluation of 12 hydrochemical variables obtained from 32 monitoring stations during 2001–2010. In each study year, the streams were monitored in the three hydrological periods (April, August, and October) to observe differences in the impacts of agricultural activity and rainfall pattern. Multivariate statistical methods were applied to the data set, and the river water hydrochemical characteristics were assessed using the water quality identification index (WQIIM). The results showed that parameters had variable contribution to water quality status in different months except for ammonia nitrogen (NH4-N) and total nitrogen (TN), which were the most important parameters in contributing to water quality variations for all three periods. Results of WQIIM revealed that 18 sites were classified as 'meeting standard' while the other 14 sites were classified as 'not meeting standard', with most of the seriously polluted sites located in urban area, mainly due to discharge of wastewater from domestic and industrial sources. Sites with low pollution level were located primarily in smaller tributaries, whereas sites of medium and high pollution levels were in the main river channel and the larger tributaries. Our findings provide valuable information and guidance for water pollution control and water resource management in the Luanhe River Basin.

Evaluation of Government Performance in Haze Pollution Control and the Optimization Path in Beijing

2020 ◽  
pp. 2050014
Author(s):  
LI Yunyan ◽  
SUN Guihua ◽  
DI Peng
Keyword(s):  
Pollution Control ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Development Potential ◽  
Haze Pollution ◽  
Government Management ◽  
The Government

In recent years, Beijing has been more often confronted with serious haze pollution, especially in autumn and winter. The People’s Government of Beijing Municipality has adopted a package of measures to control the haze pollution with its best efforts. To objectively evaluate how effective these haze pollution control measures are from different perspectives and in an all-round way, it is necessary to adopt a scientific and reasonable approach. Based on the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) idea, we establish a system of indexes to evaluate the government performance of Beijing in haze pollution control from the four perspectives of development quality, public services, government management and development potential, and use a combination of analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and entropy weight method (EWM) to determine the index weights, and objectively evaluate Beijing’s performance in haze pollution control from 2010 to 2016. The results show that the scores for the four perspectives are all on the rise, and since the implementation of the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan in 2013, the government’s haze pollution control measures have achieved significant results, and made a much higher overall score. On that basis, we propose the optimized path for Beijing’s haze pollution control, namely, accelerating the upgrading of development quality, improving the public services level, strengthening the government management, tapping the development potential of haze pollution control and increasing the linkage and cooperation between the governments of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

Applying the Clean Water Law to Southeast Forestry

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
August J. Dornbusch ◽  
Albert B. Herndon
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Water Law ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Voluntary Programs ◽  
Reporting Systems ◽  
Federal Water Pollution Control ◽  
Key Factor

Abstract Control of any water pollution from forest management is required by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (PL 92-500). Voluntary programs are acceptable in the Southeast. Plans developed under Section 208 of the Act must include best land management practices, priorities, implementation schedules, evaluation programs and reporting systems. A key factor is the assessment of types and locations of any water quality problems. Failure of voluntary plans after trial for a number of years may require regulatory approaches to be taken.

Water Pollution Control in Developing Areas – Training and Education

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (9-11) ◽  
pp. 1325-1335
Author(s):  
K Pöppinghaus
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Training And Education ◽  
Water Pollution Control

In training and further education in water pollution control areas in developing countries, the measures for substantial construction must be carried out as a long term strategy in the developing country and the measures for the elimination of acute emergencies as a short term strdzegy as well in the developing country and as in the donating countries. Programmes and solutions for the elimination of the critical stage of training and for further education are derived from and presented in an analysis of the state of training and further education. The aspects of training within the targets of Water Decade are especially discussed. The bulk of aid in training and further education made by international organizations and by the Federal Republic of Germany is illustrated. The demands on the training of engineers and the training possibilities are derived.

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