• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.182-182
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• 2017

Many small island nations rely on groundwater as their only other source of freshwater in addition to rainwater harvesting. The volume of groundwater resource of small island nations are further limited by their smaller surface area and specific hydrogeology. The rapid growth of population and tourism has led to increasing water demands and pollution of available groundwater resources. The predicted climate change effects pose significant threats to the already vulnerable freshwater lens of small islands in the form of rise in sea level, coastal inundation, saltwater intrusion, varied pattern of precipitation leading to droughts and storm surges. The effects of climate change are further aggravated by manmade stresses like increased pumping. Thus small island water resources are highly threatened under the effects of climate change. But due to the limited technical and financial capacity most of the small island developing states were unable to conduct detailed technical investigations on the effects of climate change on their water resources. In this study, we investigate how well small island countries are preparing for climate change. The current state of freshwater resources, impacts of predicted climate change along with adaptation and management strategies planned and implemented by small island countries are reviewed. Proper assessment and management practices can aid in sustaining the groundwater resources of small islands under climate change.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.529-540
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• 2018

Sand dam is a flow barrier commonly built on small or medium size sandy rivers to accumulate sand and store excess water for later use or increase the water table. The effectiveness of sand dam in increasing the water table and the amount of extractable groundwater is tested using numerical models. Two models are developed to test the hypothesis. The first model is to simulate the groundwater flow in a pseudo-natural aquifer system with the hydraulically connected river. The second model, a modified version of the first model, is constructed with a sand dam, which raises the riverbed by 2 m. In both models, the effect of groundwater abstraction is tested by varying the pumping rate. As the model results show the groundwater after the construction of the sand dam has increased significantly and the amount of extractable groundwater is also increased by many folds. Most importantly, in the second model, unlike the pseudo-natural aquifer system, the groundwater abstraction does not have a significant effect on the water table.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.153-163
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• 2014

The eco-friendly elements are important for new construction and renovation and redevelopment of the buildings. The green buildings are related with minimizing environmental pollution and how to live with nature throughout the entire process of demolishing and building. The purpose of this paper is to study on eco-friendly business buildings in the trend of mandatory green building certification system. The analysis of this paper is comparative studies on practices at eleven domestic eco-friendly business buildings through site survey on design framework of green buildings. The design framework of eleven this buildings is six kinds of skills on technical, renewable, ecological, cultural, healthy, social. The eleven this buildings in the new & renewable energy and IT technology of technical sector are satisfied with the framework. But, domestic most advanced eco-friendly business buildings are placed difference between almost the two times on the lower buildings at comparative evaluation. The three of this buildings are gratified rainwater harvesting and waste recycling systems for renewable and recycle. The buildings have an excellent aspects of technology and ecology. The benefits of this buildings are related with future compulsory zero energy house to take technical advantage of renewable energy. However, the buildings reflecting the regional culture types is insufficient. The buildings should be supplemented as follows. This buildings are need to have the social enhancement programs and design for convenient space of community residents, through health and comfort of on workplace. Moreover, this buildings have features of coexisting with human beings and nature friendly with the aim of realizing the sustainable development. The social enhancement programs through regional cultural aspects with ecology are related with individual and community livings in harmony, non-hierarchical communal lifes. The development of the cultural aspects provide for consensus about the local community and creating sustainable communities. Thus, The buildings are to have energy saving, pleasant and healthy living environment and interactive individual and community livings in harmony.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.66-78
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• 2011

It is getting difficult to manage water resources in South Korea because more than half of annual precipitation is concentrated in the summer season and its intensity is increasing due to global warming and climate change. Artificial recharge schemes such as well recharge of surface water and roof-top rainwater harvesting can be a useful method to manage water resources in Korea. In this study, potential artificial recharge site is evaluated using geographic information system with hydrogeological and social factors. The hydrogeological factors include annual precipitation, geological classification based on geological map, specific capacity and depth to water level of national groundwater monitoring wells. These factors were selected to evaluate potential artificial recharge site because annual precipitation is closely related to source water availability for artificial recharge, geological features and specific capacity are related to injection capacity and depth to water is related to storage capacity of the subsurface medium. In addition to those hydrogeological factors, social aspect was taken into consideration by selecting the areas that is not serviced by national water works and have been suffered from drought. These factors are graded into five rates and integrated together in the GIS system resulting in spatial distribution of artificial recharge potential. Cheongsong, Yeongdeok in Gyeongsangbuk-do and Hadong in Gyeongsangnam-do, and Suncheon in Jeollanam-do were proven as favorable areas for applying artificial recharge schemes. Although the potential map for artificial recharge in South Korea developed in this study need to be improved by using other scientific factors such as evaporation and topographical features, and other social factors such as water-curtain cultivation area, hot spring resorts and industrial area where groundwater level is severely lowered, it can be used in a rough site-selection, preliminary and/or feasibility study for artificial recharge.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.446-446
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• 2023

우리나라는 물의 재이용 촉진 및 지원에 관한 법률에 따라 수자원의 지속 가능한 이용을 목적으로 빗물이용시설의 설치 및 운영을 법·제도적으로 의무화하고 있으며, 위 법에 근거하여 지방자치단체에서는 빗물이용시설의 설치를 장려하기 위한 재정 지원 정책을 시행하고 있다. 환경 투자사업의 일환인 빗물이용시설 설치 사업은 장기간에 대한 경제성 분석이 요구되며, 분석에 이용된 경제성 분석 방법 및 사회적 할인율에 따라 분석 결과가 상이할 수 있다. 이에 따라, 이 연구에서는 순현재가치와 편익-비용 비율을 비교·검토하여 빗물이용시설의 경제성 분석에 적합한 방법을 제시하였으며, 경제성 분석에서 불확실한 요소인 사회적 할인율과 물가상승률에 대한 민감도 분석을 통해 두 요소의 불확실성을 평가하였다. 분석 대상 시설은 인천 청라지구 1공구에 계획된 빗물이용시설이며, 경제성 분석 기간은 지방공기업법 시행규칙에 제시된 건축물의 내용 연수인 30년으로 하였다. 편익-비용 비율을 이용하여 빗물이용시설의 경제성을 분석한 결과, 저류용량이 285 m³에서 최대 수익률이 나타났으며, 순현재가치는 저류용량이 1105 m³일 때 최대 수익이 발생하는 것으로 분석되었다. 분석 대상 지역의 경우에 285 m³에 대한 양적 신뢰도는 7.3%로 빗물이용시설의 효과를 기대하기 어려운 결과이며, 이와 같은 결과는 편익-비용 비율이 사업의 경제성을 수익률로 평가함에 따라 투자 규모를 반영하지 않는 한계로 인한 것으로 판단된다. 사회적 할인율과물가상승률에 대한 민감도 분석 결과, 사회적 할인율이 낮아지고 물가상승률이 높아짐에 따라 빗물이용시설의 저류용량과 그에 상응하는 최대 순현재가치가 커지는 경향을 보였다. 이는 미래가치를 높게 평가할수록 빗물이용시설의 저류용량이 크게 설계될 수 있음을 의미한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.416-416
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 벽면을 통해 빗물을 모을 수 있는 수직 빗물수집장치을 개발하고, 기상 자료를 이용하여 장치의 성능을 모의해보았다. 빗물수집장치는 높이에 따라 총 3 가지 유형(1.00 m, 1.50 m, 2.00 m)으로 제작되었다. 본 연구는 빗물수집장치에 의해 모을 수 있는 빗물의 양을 추정하고 실제로 측정한 값과 비교해보았다. 빗물의 양을 추정하는 과정에서는 Cho et al. (2020)이 제안한 차단량 추정식을 이용하였다. 기상 자료를 관측하기 위한 장치로는 BloomSky 기상 관측 장치를 이용하였다. 수직 빗물수집장치와 BloomSky 기상 관측 장치는 고려대학교 공학관 옥상에 설치되었다. 본 연구에서는 2020 년 6 월 10 일부터 2020 년 9 월 7 일까지 총 16 개의 강우사상에 대한 빗물수집장치에 모이는 빗물의 양과 기상 자료를 관측하여 이용하였다. 그 결과, 빗물수집장치의 빗물의 양을 추정한 결과는 실제로 관측된 결과와 유사한 것으로 확인되었다. 16개의 강우사상에 대한 빗물집수량의 추정 결과와 관측 결과의 평균은 각각 1.770 mm/hr·m² 및 1.878 mm/hr·m²로 계산되었다. 표준 편차의 경우, 추정 결과는 1.269 mm/hr·m², 관측 결과는 1.181 mm/hr·m²로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.380-380
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• 2022

빗물이용시설은 2014년 「물재이용법」 개정에 따라 시설 확충에 맞춘 획일적인 운영으로 시설수는 증가하고 있으나 대상 시설의 이용량 증가에 대한 부분은 한계를 나타내고 있다. 따라서 설치 의무대상시설에 대한 적정한 시설의 이용현황을 조사 및 분석을 통해 이용시설의 효율적인 운영 및 관리 방안 마련이 필요한 실정이다. 빗물이용시설의 효율적 관리방안 설정을 위해서는 의무 대상시설별 설치 및 운영관리 실태조사, 빗물이용시설관련 기준 검토 및 분석, 빗물이용시설 개선방안 마련의 단계로 방안을 수립하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 빗물이용시설 기준 검토 및 분석에서 지역별, 수요처별, 용도별 일정 빗물이용 활용률을 확보할 수 있는 빗물이용시설의 평가를 위해 수문학적 물수지 분석을 통한 물수요-공급시계열 분석을 수행하였다. 물수지 분석 툴이 없기 때문에 본 연구를 통해 빗물이용시설 물수지 분석 excel 도구를 개발하였으며, 이를 통해 빗물이용시설 공급충족률(필요수량 대비 빗물이용량), 빗물보장률(전체일수 대비 빗물이용일수), 빗물이용시설 이용률(빗물이용시설용량 대비 빗물이용가능량)에 대해 분석을 수행하였다. 개발한 물수지 분석 excel 도구를 이용하여 현재 설치되고 운영하고 있는 의무대상시설의 운영현황과 도구에서 계산된 활용성 평가 결과의 비교를 통해 현재 운영 현황을 개선할 수 있으며, 다양한 시나리오 적용에 따른 운영 결과를 시설 설치 이전에 확인하여 최적 운영방안 도출에 활용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 1994

This study was carried out to investigate the possibility of potential injury to crops which were exposed to precipitation. The rainwater were collected from May to September in 1992 and analyzed its chemical composition. The amounts of chlorophyll and cations in plant were measured, and the morphological structure of epidermis was also investigated by SEM. The results are summarized as follows: 1. The pH of precipitation in Suwon was relatively high even with high level of $SO_4^{2-}$ and monthly pH at May, June, July, August, and September were 4.65, 5.47, 5.32, 5.44 and 4.80, respectively. 2. The amount of ions in rainwater was in the order of $NH_4^+$, $Ca^{2+}$, $Mg^{2+}$ and $H^+$ for cations, and $SO_4^{2-}$, $NO_3^-$ and $Cl^-$ for anions. 3. pH of rain in less than 5mm of precipitation was higher than that in greater than 5mm of precipitation. 4. The amount of chlorophyll was higher in the plant exposed to rain than that in plant intercepted rain during the early portion of growing season, but at the later period, the trend was shown to be reversed. 5. When the sesame plants were exposed to rain at harvesting stage, they contained less amount of CaO, MgO and $Na_2O$ than those with the interception of rain. 6. Scanning electron microphotographs revealed the shringkage in glandular trichomes in the epidermis of sesame leaves when they were exposed to rain.