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Water Special Project
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Water Special Project is a project focused on water related to the environment. In order to control water pollution and improve the quality of water, the government should published some projects to improve water quality. Water special project also known as the water pollution control and management project, the quality of water may have an important influence on people's livelihoods as they must use water in their daily life, we use water all the time. If lack of water and suffer from water pollution, it is difficult for us to survive. This is a serious problem, the government realized this problem and this has become a great concern in many countries such as China. So the engineer think that we should focus on the treatment of whole river basins, improve the overall water environment and make sure people can drink safe water. It has a great impact on the environment, so it associated with WikiProject Environment and it also related to the natural environment.
Water pollution on Earth
[edit]There is an article indicates that there are more than 150000 villages in India facing problem in drinking water specially in Gujarat State. It is one of the worst situation in India. The surface water have been excavated fully, and the groundwater was also overexploitation. The result of this problem is the water quality become bad and the water is harmful to the human's health. Therefore this article emphasizes the importance of the Sardar Sarovar Project for the social and economic development of western India especially in Gujarat. It also introduce the pioneering method that will be used in environment and rehabilitation. Thus, in the current situation, the country has no choice but to harness Narmada waters.[1] In China, half of its population has no access to safe drinking water, and two-thirds of its population depends on polluted water. On the basis of the World Bank, China’s water pollution problem is so severe that it could have “disastrous consequences for future generations”. China’s water supply is polluted by toxic people and industrial waste. Water pollution caused by algal blooms to make China into the lake light green, but a bigger problem may be lurking in the lake below. There is about 90 per cent of groundwater in China has been polluted. Face of China’s coastal manufacturing belt pollution is most serious. Although closed thousands of pollution sources, a third of the waterway still far below the government’s moderate water quality standards. Many rural areas in China lacks a sewage system. Water pollution in China has doubled from the government’s initial forecast because of the effect of agricultural wastes were ignored. Agricultural fertilizers cause water pollution to a large extent. China’s water containing poisonous arsenic and fluoride and sulfate, and pollution has been linked to high incidence of liver cancer, gastric cancer and esophageal cancer in China. A professor at the University of East Anglia who is called Dabo Guan, has studied China’s scarcity and water pollution for years, he thinks that water pollution is the biggest environmental problems in China, but the influence of the public may not know it. Air pollution causes the pressure on the government because it is visible every day, but the groundwater pollution in cities is invisible, which makes it almost forgotten. China’s water pollution is the result of the demand for cheap goods. Transnational corporations regardless of the way of environmental protection of its suppliers. Although the development of China made many people out of poor, it also make many diseases. Due to environmental laws and regulation is unsound, ineffective enforcement and local corruption, factory can freely waste water into the lakes and rivers. Some rural villages near the factory use the polluted water to drink, wash and cook. Because of the high cancer rates and high mortality, the hamlets are called “cancer villages”.
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Water management
[edit]An article talks about how important that sewage treatment and water treatment plants (WTPs) in America. It indicates that the projects can provide savings every year. It highlights the alternative to traditional debt financing for projects. It use a GSA and DBFA to implement the water and wastewater projects. In Energy Services Companies (ESCOs). GSAs have made some progress and have taken place as legal delivery model for municipal energy efficiency and process optimization projects. Increased revenue and avoid capital avoidance when determining the savings potential of the projects. If legislation allows, it can use any typical project financing method for municipal capital projects. However, when thinking about which type is the most suitable to this project, it is important to consider finance in every aspects. Higher interest rates and reduced administrative workloads and costs, as well as faster turnaround times, are often better choices than pursuing low-interest financing that requires a lot of management work or a long-term approval process. Both GSAs and DBFAs are helpful for the reason that they can be paid through the municipal government's operating budget and provide a viable alternative to providing energy efficiency and process optimization projects during difficult economics times.[2] More and more countries are facing problems about lack of water resources. Rapid global population growth may due to long-term water shortage, the role of water scarcity and drought in increasing vulnerability and conflict.is increasing. In the future life, providing food to people requires an increase in agricultural production and water withdrawals will also increase. In addition to this growing demand, resources in many parts of the world are scarce. For many countries, water security is a major and growing challenge nowadays. Under these circumstances, to achieve optimal water management and development solutions for all coastal countries, cooperation is needed. To address these complex and interrelated water challenges, countries need to improve the way they manage water and related services. To strengthen water security in the context of increased demand, water scarcity, increased uncertainty, extremes and decentralization challenges, clients need to strengthen the system, invest in managing the information and also develop infrastructure. In order to better allocate, manage and protect water resources, it needs some institutional tools such as legal and regulatory frameworks, water prices. Monitoring resources, uncertainty decision making, system analysis, and hydro-meteorological forecasting and early warning all require information systems. In addition to seeking opportunities to increase water storage, including aquifer recharge and recovery, investments in innovative technologies to increase productivity, protect and conserve resources, recover rainwater and wastewater, and develop unconventional water sources should be explored. The key to enhancing global water security is to ensure rapid propagation and proper adaptation or application of these advances.[3]
Water conservation behavior
[edit]Due to unsustainable development over the past decade, Thailand is facing pollution problems and the depletion of many natural resources. These problems have affected the country’s main rivers, which are vital to sustainable economic, social and cultural development. It is necessary to focus on solving this problem at all levels from individual to community. Individuals from a particular community can directly influence the water quality of their community or neighborhood. This paper reports on a water conservation project in cooperation with the Talabanmai and Tara bone communities in the province of Thailand. This article will discuss this activity and compare the effectiveness of the intervention group with the control group in the posttest and partial follow up. In water conservation campaigns, community participation is an effective, effective and beneficial way to solve the water pollution problem in Bangoakong River.[4] With the growth of population and the fact that only such a small part of the earth’s water us suitable for consumption, we must protect this valuable resource to make sense. Cutting down the amount of water implies using our limited water resources intelligently and dealing with them properly. Because everybody rely on water for our lives, so it is incumbent upon us to learn more about water protection and to keep the water resources clean and safe for the benefits of future generations. In other words, water protection in not the work of scientists, hydrographers, forest workers, wildlife managers, urban planners, farmers or miners. On the contrary, it depends on each of us saving water. There are many reasons why should we protect water. It minimizes the impact of arid and water resources. Although our demand for freshwater resources has been increasing due to industry and population growth, our freshwater supply remains unchanged. Although water will come back to the earth finally through water cycle, it does not always come back to the same place, or in the same quantity and quality. By reducing water consumption, we can better withstand droughts in the coming years. It can prevent political conflicts and increasing costs. If we do not cut down the amount of water, it will results water supply shortage, which may have serious consequences. These factors can be include increasing costs, decreased food supply, health risks and political conflicts. It can help us to protect the environment. Reducing water use reduce the energy that need to transport water to households, companies and communities which helps reduce pollution and save fuel resources.[5] In order to save water, it is useful to set up a water-efficient showerhead, it can help you save water and money. Reusing the recycled water is a good way to save water, the water sources is including the bath, bathroom sink, laundry, kitchen sink and shower, these are all can be reuse.[6]
Solutions to improve water quality
[edit]In order to improve soil and water quality, using winter cover crops is a good way. There is a paper reviews the literature on the effects of cover crops on soil and water quality in cropping systems and provides limited new information to help fill the knowledge gap. The period during which the cover crop grows on the possible fallow land of the soil. Cover crops increases the harvest of solar energy and carbon flux into the soil, provide food for macro and micro organisms of the soil, and increases the evapotranspiration of the soil when they grow actively. The utilization of cover crops will increase and soil and water quality will improve if developing systems to decrease the cost of cover crop cultivation and overcome subsequent crop cultivation questions.[7] Overnutrition, inefficient use of nutrients and unavoidable nutrient leaks from grazing animal production systems are having increasing pressure on Australia’s inland and coastal water resources. Although some examples are important in Australia’s control policy way aimed at decreasing nutrient substance emissions and improving water quality and the periphery of damaged coastal and inland waters, most policy options involve voluntary plans, which included financial encouragement for two industry organizations and farmers to offset cost management practices for improvement. In comparison, the European Union, the United States and New Zealand have implemented stricter land management regulations, while New Zealand has a lower degree of implementation. In the near future, society will have higher expectation for water quality, international market will have stricter standards and the cost of purchasing nutrients will increase, which means that it is an essential part for Australia to improve nutrition use efficiency and decrease nutrition losses in their livestock production system. In order to better balance production and environmental objectives, this may require some different and difficult choices. The solutions of government may include adoption of proper way about nutrition management, limiting nutritional input, mandatory overnutrition targets, limiting the number of livestock per hectare, and invest more farms into more flexible parts of the national landscape. Or society should accept the inevitable balance between standards of water quality and productivity of livestock to increase sewage treatment at the expense of communities.[8] There are many ways that can help to improve water quality. For example, keep the road clean, clean up the leaves on the road in time. Reducing the usage of pesticides and fertilizers, it is the best way to improve the water quality. In addition, it is essential for us to reduce erosion, planting some native plants is helpful to the soil, so it can prevent soil erosion when we planting native plants.[9]
Reference
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- ^ Vyas, Jay Narayan (2001-03-01). "Water and Energy for Development in Gujarat with Special Focus on the Sardar Sarovar Project". International Journal of Water Resources Development. 17 (1): 37–54. doi:10.1080/07900620120025042. ISSN 0790-0627. S2CID 154795215.
- ^ "Signing into eresources, The University of Sydney Library". login.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ "Water Resources Management". World Bank. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ^ "Improving Community Water Conservation Behaviour in Chachoengsao, Thailand".
- ^ Evans, Marni. "5 Reasons We Should Care About Saving Water". The Balance Small Business. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ Victoria, Sustainability. "Save water". www.sustainability.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ Dabney, S. M.; Delgado, J. A.; Reeves, D. W. (2001-04-30). "Using Winter Cover Crops to Improve Soil and Water Quality". Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis. 32 (7–8): 1221–1250. doi:10.1081/CSS-100104110. ISSN 0010-3624. S2CID 55768619.
- ^ "Signing into eresources, The University of Sydney Library". login.ezproxy1.library.usyd.edu.au. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ "Six ways to improve water quality". eminnetonka.com. Retrieved 2019-05-31.