scholarly journals The GCRF Living Deltas Hub: using water quality monitoring and lived experiences to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy R. Roberts ◽  
Heather L. Moorhouse ◽  
Oanh Truong ◽  
Phong Nguyen Thanh ◽  
Suzanne McGowan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Anthropogenic Activity ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Safe Water

<p>The Living Deltas Hub is a UKRI GCRF-funded community investigating the environmental, societal, and natural-cultural heritage of three South and Southeast Asian mega-deltas; the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta spanning India and Bangladesh, and the Mekong Delta and Red River Delta of Vietnam. Globally, deltas occupy only 1% of the total land area, but support the livelihoods of ~500 million citizens. As a consequence of growing human populations and intensified anthropogenic activity these deltas face multiple challenges, such as eustatic sea level rise, land subsidence, saline intrusion, unsustainable extraction of natural resources, habitat loss, pollution, and are currently on a trajectory towards collapse. The waterscape of the deltas place SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) at the heart of sustainable development. Thus, the Hub aims to quantify and assess human impacts on the water quality of major river channels, canals, and ponds by establishing catchment-wide water quality monitoring supplemented by historical data, biomonitoring networks, community science projects (including water quality and participatory GIS) and local knowledge of water quality. This will result in improved understanding of the impacts of the multi-functionality of water sources in Asian mega-deltas from basic domestic use (bathing and drinking water) up to industrial scale aquaculture, and can lead to the success of SDG 6 (clean water), SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing), SDG 2 (zero hunger – here, through sustainable aquaculture), and SDG 14 (life below water). In addition, the combined methodology of water quality monitoring and understanding lived experiences can be used to identify the concerns of local communities, identify inequalities in the access to safe water (working towards SDG 10 reduced inequalities) and understand the female experience (working towards SDG 5 gender inequality). Using a literature review of pond water quality and use in the delta regions and data from household surveys conducted in three regions of the Mekong Delta (Ben Tre, An Giang and Can Tho), we will use ponds as a case study to demonstrate how this approach can be used to improve understanding of community access to safe water. </p><p> </p>

Monitoring and predicting water quality for smart urban water infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Coraggio ◽  
Dawei Han ◽  
Theo Tryfonas ◽  
Weiru Liu
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Polluted Water ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Resources Management

<p>Water resources management is a delicate, complex and challenging task. It involves monitoring quality, quantity, timing and distribution of water in order to meet the needs of the population’s usage demand. Nowadays these decisions have to be made in a continuously evolving landscape where quantity and quality of water resources change in time with uncertainty.</p><p>Throughout history, access to clean water has always been a huge desire from urban settlements. People built towns and villages close to water sources. In most cases, streams brought clean water in and washed away polluted water. Nowadays the largest strains on water quality typically occur within urban areas, with degradation coming from point and diffuse sources of pollutants and alteration of natural flow through built-up areas.</p><p>Municipalities are acting to reduce the impact of climate change on existing cities and meet the needs of the growing urban population. In many places around the world costal flood defences were built involving construction of barriers that lock the tide and keep the water coming from in-land rivers creating reservoirs close to the shore.</p><p>These man-made barriers stop the natural cleaning action of the tide on transitional waters. This causes severe water quality problems like eutrophication and high levels of bacteria. On the positive side, these water reservoirs are used as recreational water, drinking water, agricultural water. As many more people are moving to live in urban areas, its overall demand for clean water and discharge of polluted water is constantly growing. Hence monitoring and foreseeing water quality in these urban surface waters is fundamental in order to be able to meet the water demand in future scenarios.</p><p>Many cities have already successfully implemented smart water technologies in many types of the water infrastructures. Monitoring water quality has always been a challenging and costly task. It has been so far the most difficult water characteristic to monitor remotely in real time. Lack of high frequency and accurate data has always been one of the main challenges. Today, using information and communication technologies (ICT) is possible to set up a real time water quality monitoring system that will allow to deepen the understanding of water quality dynamics leading to a better management of urban water resources.</p><p>A case study will be presented where a real time water quality monitoring system for the surface water of Bristol Floating Harbour has been deployed in the UK and water quality data have been analysed using artificial intelligence algorithms in order to understand the link between ambient weather data (i.e., precipitation, temperature, solar radiation, wind, etc.) and surface water pollution. Preliminary results of a water quality prediction model will also be presented showing the capabilities of predicting water quality as a new tool in municipality’s decision-making processes and water resources management.</p>

scholarly journals Design and Deployment of an IoT-Based Water Quality Monitoring System for Aquaculture in Mekong Delta

2020 ◽  
pp. 1170-1175
Author(s):  
Luong Vinh Quoc Danh ◽  
Dang Vu Minh Dung ◽  
Tran Huu Danh ◽  
Nguyen Chi Ngon
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Quality Monitoring

scholarly journals A GIS-MCDA-Based Suitability Analysis for Meeting Targets 6.3 and 6.5 of the Sustainable Development Goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4153
Author(s):  
Angeliki Mentzafou ◽  
Momčilo Blagojević ◽  
Elias Dimitriou
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Input Data ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

Among the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established in the 2030 Agenda, goals 6.3, regarding clean water and improve of water quality, and 6.5, regarding integrated water resources management, highlight the need for the implementation of successful environmental water quality monitoring programs of transboundary river waterbodies. In the present study, the designation of high priority areas for water quality monitoring of Drin transboundary watershed is performed using a suitability model, a GIS-based multicriteria decision analysis (GIS-MCDA) approach that takes into consideration the most important conditioning factors that impose pressures on rivers. Based on the results, the methodological approach used manages to sufficiently delimit the areas with increased need for water quality monitoring in the Drin watershed, and the validation procedure produces a correlation coefficient of 0.454 (statistically significant at a 0.01 level). Limitations arise in the case of a lack of detailed information or inaccurate input data and due to the inconsistency among the input data and the different methodological approaches regarding the information collection of each country involved. These restrictions foreground the need for cooperation between the countries involved regarding the exchange of scientific knowledge and common legislation, so as to achieve integrated, effective, and sustainable management of water resources of the area.

scholarly journals Advance Water Quality Monitoring System using Solar Power

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VI) ◽  
pp. 4136-4141
Author(s):  
Manas Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Cell Model ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Ph Sensor ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Rating System ◽  
Low Power Consumption ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Daunting Task

As of the growing environmental and water challenge, access to clean water is of paramount importance. Many methods are used of checking the water level with a low cost rating system. Monitoring water quality in various areas as a real application is recommended for low-level channel and sensory areas. Designing and implementing this solar cell model with WSN technology is a daunting task. Third PH sensor (SKU: SEN0169), Turbidity sensor connected to Arduino, GSM and LCD for communication and monitoring purposes. These sensors take measurements of the relevant parameters (PH, Turbidity, and Temperature) and send them to Arduino, where they are shown on the LCD. For monitoring reasons, estimated values are sent through GSM. The solar panel is used to power the system and independently provide a lead battery. This idea is useful when the grid is not available. The benefit of this system is low power consumption, no carbon emissions, which can be easily shipped to a remote location and so on.

scholarly journals Application of GIS and Multi-Criteria Statistical Techniques in Assessing Water Quality in the Coastal Province of Vietnamese Mekong Delta

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thanh Giao ◽  
Huynh Thi Hong Nhien
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Rainy Season ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Surface Water Quality ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Dry Season ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring Data ◽  
Coastal Province

The study was conducted to evaluate the quality and spatial distribution of surface water quality in Soc Trang, a coastal province using Geographic information system (GIS) and multivariate statistical analysis. Water monitoring data was collected from 19 sampling locations with 19 parameters were analyzed from February 2019 to August 2020. The results indicated that water quality was contaminated with organic matters, nutrients, coliforms and salinity. Water quality index (WQI=22–73) indicated that water quality was from poor to medium level. Cluster analysis (CA) classified 19 monitoring sites into 7 groups and 19 months into 3 seasons including rainy season, rainy season-early dry season, dry season-early rainy season. CA results showed that the location and frequency of water quality monitoring could be significantly reduced, saving up to 75% the monitoring costs. The maps of the polluted parameters (TSS, DO, BOD, COD, TOC, NH4+-N, NO2--N, Coliform, Fe, Cl-) illustrated that the areas located in the interior fields and near the sea had poorer water quality compared to the areas adjacent to the Hau River. The combination of multivariable statistics and GIS was very useful for spatial and temporal analysis of water quality monitoring data.

scholarly journals Social change innovations, citizen science, miniSASS and the SDGs

Water Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim Taylor ◽  
Mark Graham ◽  
Adrienne Louw ◽  
Ayanda Lepheana ◽  
Bonani Madikizela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

Abstract The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) describe a course of action to address poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all (https://sdgs.un.org/goals). More specifically, SDG 6 clarifies how water quality, quantity and access are crucial to human well-being, and yet human activities are compromising water resources through over-exploitation, pollution, as well as contributing to the spread of disease. Globally aquatic ecosystems are highly threatened and concerted efforts by governments and civil society to ‘turn the situation around’ are simply not working. Human-created problems require human-centred solutions and these require different ways of thinking and acting to those behaviour patterns that are contributing to the challenges. In this paper, we first consider causal approaches to attitude change and behaviour modification that are simply not working as intended. We then explore enabling responses such as citizen science and co-engaged action learning as more tenable alternatives. SDG 6 has a focus on clean water and sanitation for all. The SDGs further clarify how the extent to which this goal can be realized depends, to a large extent, on stakeholder engagements and education. Through stakeholder engagements and educational processes, people can contribute towards SDG 6 and the specific indicator and target in SDG 6.b – Stakeholder participation. Following a three-year research process, that investigated a wide range of participatory tools, this paper explores how the Stream Assessment Scoring System (miniSASS; www.minisass.org) can enable members of the public to engage in water quality monitoring at a local level. The paper continues to demonstrate how miniSASS can contribute to the monitoring of progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 6.3.2., as a Level Two indicator. miniSASS is proving popular in southern Africa as a methodology for engaging stakeholder participation in water quality monitoring and management. The technique costs very little to implement and can be applied by children and scientists alike. As a biomonitoring approach, it is based on families of macroinvertebrates that are present in most perennial rivers of the world. The paper concludes by describing how useful the miniSASS technique can be for addressing SDG 6.3.2 and that it can be applied in most regions of the world.

scholarly journals PEMANTAUAN KUALITAS AIR ONLINE DAN REALTIME DI INTAKE PDAM TAMAN KOTA CENGKARENG DRAIN DKI JAKARTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heru Dwi Wahjono
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Treatment Plant ◽  
Water Treatment Plant ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Raw Water

The need for clean water in big cities is very dependent on water supply by water companies (PDAM). The increasing demand for clean water in big cities is proportional to the increasing of number population and industry, but not comparable to the clean water supply and quality of raw water available. PDAM has made various efforts to improve the quality of clean water services to the community. One of the effort is to improve the performance of water treatment plant (WTP). To support the improvement of the performance of WTP, required water quality monitoring at the intake location in use. This paper discusses the online and realtime water quality monitoring at the water intake location using a multi-probe digital sensor and GSM technology. This observation data is used as a comparative data analysis of laboratory data on raw water source PDAM Taman Kota (Cengkareng Drain). Keywords: air baku air minum, intake PDAM Taman Kota Cengkareng Drain, pemantuan kualitas air, multi probe digital sensor, teknologi online monitoring, Water Treatment Plant

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