TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of watershed land use on maintaining acceptable quality influents for water treatment plants
AU - Baykal, Bilsen Beler
AU - Tanik, Aysegul
AU - Gonenc, I. Ethem
PY - 2003/12
Y1 - 2003/12
N2 - Providing acceptable quality water in sufficient quantities is a challenge that local authorities have to face in various parts of the world, especially for bigger cities and megacities where there is a rapidly increasing population and difficulties in the control of new housing and provision of proper infrastructure. The quality of water distributed is strongly dependent on the quality of water coming in to the water treatment plant from the water resource, which in turn is dependent on the conditions of its watershed. Better quality influents are expected of water resources with well-controlled watersheds in terms of population, population density, residential, industrial and agricultural activities and pertinent infrastructure to account for those activities. The Turkish megacity of Istanbul, which has been experiencing this pressure with apparent impacts of watershed land use on the water quality of its water supply reservoirs, provides a case to be considered for water management in the new century.
AB - Providing acceptable quality water in sufficient quantities is a challenge that local authorities have to face in various parts of the world, especially for bigger cities and megacities where there is a rapidly increasing population and difficulties in the control of new housing and provision of proper infrastructure. The quality of water distributed is strongly dependent on the quality of water coming in to the water treatment plant from the water resource, which in turn is dependent on the conditions of its watershed. Better quality influents are expected of water resources with well-controlled watersheds in terms of population, population density, residential, industrial and agricultural activities and pertinent infrastructure to account for those activities. The Turkish megacity of Istanbul, which has been experiencing this pressure with apparent impacts of watershed land use on the water quality of its water supply reservoirs, provides a case to be considered for water management in the new century.
KW - Drinking water reservoirs
KW - Land use
KW - Population density
KW - Protection zones
KW - Water quality management
KW - Watershed
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0347300753&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2166/aqua.2003.0052
DO - 10.2166/aqua.2003.0052
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0347300753
SN - 0003-7214
VL - 52
SP - 587
EP - 596
JO - Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA
JF - Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology - AQUA
IS - 8
ER -