scholarly journals A Numerical Solution for the Integrated Analysis of Water Resources Management: Application to the Mero River Watershed, La Coruña, Spain

2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (10) ◽  
pp. 815-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Padilla ◽  
J. Horacio Hernández ◽  
Ricardo Juncosa ◽  
Pablo R. Vellando
1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 733-750
Author(s):  
R. Mark Palmer

Abstract Sewage treatment studies at the watershed scale, compared to case-by-case community projects, ensures the most cost-efficient investment of funds commensurate with environmental requirements to sustain growth. A three-year environmental assessment study for the town of New Tecumseth, Ontario, examined all nutrient inputs to the Nottawasaga River watershed. Other challenging watershed constraints were investigated, such as stream and river flow takings for irrigation and sediment transport, prior to the selection of the master sewage treatment plan. The findings from the field research and computer modelling were used to (1) place a realistic perspective on nutrient impacts, present and future, attributable to treated sewage effluent; (2) design a master plan that could be used as an opportunity in terms of reusing the effluent locally for agricultural irrigation; (3) provide a real-time assurance of the plan’s performance/compliance, based on the actual carrying capacity of the aquatic ecosystem; (4) stage the construction of the plan in a cost-effective and environmentally sound manner; and (5) recommend a water resources management strategy to control other nutrient and sediment load sources within the watershed. The recommended master sewage treatment plan and water resources management strategy can restore the Ministry of Environment and Energy provincial water quality objective concentration for total phosphorus within the river during 7Q20 flow conditions.


RBRH ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gisele Oliveira Mota da Silva ◽  
Yvonilde Dantas Pinto Medeiros ◽  
Andrea Sousa Fontes ◽  
Suzana Maria Gico Lima Montenegro

ABSTRACT In Brazil, water regulatory agencies adopt two different methodologies of equating water balance for the purposes of water permits: one that considers the uses for surface water withdrawal and waste water discharge in an integrated way, and one that analyses these two uses as demands that do not relate with each other. In the state of Bahia, this analysis disregards the integration of quantitative and qualitative uses. Furthermore, at the moment, there are not internal procedures that enable the integration of the water permit with other water resources management instruments. In this context, the aim of this work consists of analysing the advantages and limitations of the implementation of the equating methodology that integrates the quali-quantitative analysis of the water balance for purposes of water permit, compared with current procedures in the state of Bahia. For this analysis, a diagnosis of use of the Paraguaçu River Watershed (BHRP) was developed through the Water Balance Control System (SCBH), simulating the two methodologies and comparing potential water use index. The results reinforce that the methodology of equating the quali-quantitative water balance does not represent an advance for water resources management when the other instruments, present in the State Water Resources Policy, are not integrated with the water permit.


2019 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 104029 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Ricardo Manzano-Solís ◽  
Carlos Díaz-Delgado ◽  
Miguel Angel Gómez-Albores ◽  
Carlos Alberto Mastachi-Loza ◽  
Denise Soares

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