An Open Source GIS‐Based Decision Support System for Watershed Evaluation of Best Management Practices

Economic costs, water quantity/quality benefits, and cost effectiveness of agricultural best management practices (BMPs) at a watershed scale are increasingly examined using integrated economic‐hydrologic models. However, these models are typically complex and not user‐friendly for examining the effects of various BMP scenarios. In this study, an open source geographic information system (GIS)‐based decision support system (DSS), named the watershed evaluation of BMPs (WEBs), was developed for creating BMP scenarios and simulating economic costs and water quantity/quality benefits at farm field, subbasin, and watershed scales. This DSS or WEBs interface integrated a farm economic model, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), and an optimization model within Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools (GAT), an open source GIS software. The DSS was applied to the 14.3‐km² Gully Creek watershed, a coastal watershed in southern Ontario, Canada that drains directly into Lake Huron. BMPs that were evaluated included conservation tillage, nutrient management, cover crop, and water and sediment control basins. In addition to assessing economic costs, water quantity/quality benefits, and cost effectiveness of BMPs, the DSS can be also used to examine prioritized BMP types/locations and corresponding economic and water quantity/quality tradeoffs in the study watershed based on environmental targets or budget constraints. Further developments of the DSS including interface transfer to other watersheds are also discussed. Editor's note : This paper is part of the featured series on SWAT Applications for Emerging Hydrologic and Water Quality Challenges. See the February 2017 issue for the introduction and background to the series.     

Assessing equity and sustainability of water allocation in Colombia

Based on the national database of 28,104 water rights (concessions) granted in Colombia, this paper presents an analysis of how the principles of equity and sustainability are reflected in water allocation. Concessions appear to be an exclusionary mechanism since only a minority of small water users have concessions and the distribution of water volumes among those who have them is extremely inequitable. The 2009 Gini coefficient calculated for water concessions granted for agriculture was 0.90 compared with the rural land Gini of 0.88 (both indicators grouping holdings under the same entity). More than half of the Colombian departments have a higher Gini coefficient for water than for land, suggesting that water rights are at least as unequally distributed as land, in one of the most inequitable countries in Latin America. Water allocated to domestic, agriculture and hydropower use indicates a lack of consistency of water allocation criteria across regions. The volumetric and administrative attributes of water allocation in Colombia do not account for environmental flows or the concerns of marginalised groups of society that have limited access to the mechanism. Water allocation as a technical task, with limited transparency and secluded from public scrutiny, does not contribute to the solution of increasing water-related conflicts.     

东莞运河水环境容量优化研究

本文根据东莞运河的特点,建立了适用运河特点的水环境容量优化模型,求解运河在不同的运行规律下最大的水环境容量值。建立的模型简单,易于求解,求解方程可以直接引用线性规划软件,计算得到的结果正确。      

用原生动物评价黄河兰州段的水质

报导了黄河兰州段的原生动物157种。根据原生动物群落构成特点;优势种群;污生指数和功能类群等指标对水质污染程度进行了评价,其各样点污染顺序是：库心（β_m）＜小川（β_m－α_m）＜新城桥（α_m）＜湟水桥(α_m）＜中山桥、包兰桥（α_m－ｐ_s）。这一评价结果与理化分析、底栖无脊椎动物和大肠杆菌的评价结果基本一致,表明原生动物可以作为宏观评价黄河水体污染程度的指示生物。     

河流水质系统的灰色规划方法和应用

借助于河流水质灰色模型,可以对河流水质系统进行灰色规划。灰色规划考虑了实际河流水质系统中客观存在的不确知因素和偶然因素影响,概述了河流水质系统的灰色规划模型的构造、河流水质系统灰色规划模型的求解及其在四川沱江水质系统规划中的应用。     

珠江三角洲城市供水与水污染整治战略研究

本文在系统分析珠江三角洲水环境水资源特点与经济发展需求的基础上,按照确保水源与合理利用水环境容量并重的原则,提出了三角洲各城市的供水与污水控制的总体布局。这种按水系的整体性确定区域各城市水污染整治战略的方法,对经济开发强度大的地区是普遍适用的,可以收到事半功倍的效果。      

滇池水污染控制系统规划

提出了滇池水污染控制系统规划模型,对污水集中治理措施,厂内治理措施与面源治理措施同时进行了优化,得出了滇池流域综合治理的优化方案,为滇池水污染控制提供了科学依据。      

灰色系统理论在湖泊水质预测建模中的应用

本文将灰色系统理论应用于湖泊水质预测建模研究,提出了湖泊水质预测的建模方法,并建立了某湖化学需氧量(COD)的GM(1,1)预测模型。      

水环境质量评价的可视化系统研究

以河南省安阳市境内3条水系为例,提出了实现水环境质量评价的计算机图形可视化的技术路线和系统设计方案。深入探讨了实现河流水系的动态控制和交互处理的可能性。通过形象直观的计算机动态图形画面,再现了河流水质的现在和将来。      

甲基红分光光度法测定水中余氯

提出了以甲基红褪色光度法测定水中的余氯。在酸性介质中,余氯使甲基红褪色,最大吸收波长524nm,摩尔吸光系数=1.25×104L/mol·cm。余氯质量浓度在0 0mg/L～1mg/L范围内遵守比耳定律。对甲基红混合溶液的加入量以及样品溶液褪色后其吸光值的稳定性等作了条件试验,并与DPD分光光度法进行了对比测定,两种方法测定结果基本一致。