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Development of a Decision Support System for Turbid Water Management through Joint Dam Operation

  • Kim, Jeong-Kon;Ko, Ick-Hwan;Yoo, Yang-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2007
  • In this study we developed a turbidity management system to support the operation for effective turbid water management. The decision-making system includes various models for prediction of turbid water inflow, effective reservoir operation using the selective withdrawal facility, analysis of turbid water discharge in the downstream. The system is supported by the intensive monitoring devices installed in the upstream rivers, reservoirs, and downstream rivers. SWAT and HSPF models were constructed to predict turbid water flows in the Imha and Andong catchments. CE-QUAL-W2 models were constructed for turbid water behavior prediction, and various analyses were conducted to examine the effects of the selective withdrawal operation for efficient high turbid water discharge, turbid water distribution under differing amount and locations of turbid water discharge. A 1-dimensional dynamic water quality model was built using Ko-Riv1 for simulation of turbidity propagation in the downstream of the reservoirs, and 2-dimensional models were developed to investigate the mixing phenomena of two waters discharged from the Andong and Imha reservoirs with different temperature and turbidity conditions during joint dam operation for reducing the impacts of turbid water.

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Impacts of Climate Change on Water Crisis and Formation of Green Algal Blooms in Vietnam

  • Thriveni, Thenepalli;Lee, Namju;Nam, Gnu;Whan, Ahn Ji
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.68-75
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    • 2017
  • Global warming affects water supply and water resources throughout the world. In many countries, climate change affects significantly on the fresh water resources. Vietnam is exposed mainly, to landslides and floods triggered by tropical storms and monsoon rains, although storm surge, whirlwind, river bank and coastal line erosion, hail rain. In addition to the prevalent drought, there are many major water challenges, including water availability, stress, scarcity and accessibility, because of poor resource management. Fast growth of urbanization, industrialization and population growth, agricultural activities and climate change cause heavy pressure on water quality. Both domestic and industrial wastewater, as well as storm water shares the same drainage. The common facilities for wastewater treatment are not available. Therefore, wastewater is treated only superficially and then discharged directly into rivers and lakes causing serious pollution of surface water environment. In this paper, we reported the severe water crisis and massive green algal blooms formation in Vietnam rivers and lakes. This is the biggest evidence of climate change variations in Vietnam.

Groundwater Movement Analysis according to Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction (지표수-지하수 상호관계에 따른 지하수 유동분석)

  • Ahn, Seung-Seop;Park, Dong-Il;Jung, Do-Joon;Seok, Dong-Ki
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.1945-1949
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    • 2009
  • It is fact that many research is advanced about management and security of water resources according to serious problem which is raising its head that conservancy and management of water resources development of population and industry. Ground water of water resources is the source of water resources security with surface water, so it have to be continuous exploitation and research however, until now it researched in separate way from surface water, and it become connect each other for the research in actual condition in recent times. The research analyzed the recharge at the SWAT model, interpreted by used GMS/MODFLOW model for ground water flow change.

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SOUTH KOREA′S WATER RESOURCES POLICY TOWARD THE 21ST CENTURY: CONFLICTING VIEWS

  • Choi, Yearn-Hong
    • Water Engineering Research
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.103-112
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    • 2001
  • Issues and problems in formulating South Korea's water resources policy are discussed in terms of water quantity and quality. South Korean needs both water conservation and water supply capability for the growing population and economic activities. The government has attempted to build more large-scale dams to store and supply water for residential, farming and industrial uses, but the environmentalists who emphasize conservation and environmental protection oppose the government. The environmentalists are popular among the general public. Water quality has been deteriorating from point- ad non-point sources. urban and farm runoffs are serious pollutants. All want by preserve water quality. There is no dispute on this matter between the government and the environmentalists. Money is hard to come by to preserve water quality. Economic and financial crises and no self-sufficient local governments' revenue structure are pessimistic. Basic survey on water resources, hydrology and hydraulic is badly needed for the future water resources planning.

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An assessment of the effect of air scouring and swabbing pig cleaning technique on water distribution pipes (공기주입과 스와빙 피그를 이용한 상수관로 세척 효과 평가)

  • Bae, Cheolho;Lee, Doojin;Choi, Doo-Yong;Jun, Hongjin;Park, Sehyun;Choi, Taeho
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.459-468
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    • 2015
  • Deposits discharged through the cleaning mainly were cement mortar, bitumen paintings and rust pieces, and fragments of perforation, stones and gravels. Deposits were more removed through swabbing pig cleaning rather than air scouring cleaning on the whole. However, air scouring cleaning were not influenced by the constraint conditions such as a change in the diameter or the presence of the valve in water mains compare to swabbing pig cleaning. So, it was thought that air scouring cleaning might be more favorable to water distribution network cleaning in the future. After the cleaning, water quality including residual chlorine and turbidity also was improved because of the removal of a significant amount of the deposits. Therefore, if the cleaning is continuously and regularly implemented in water mains, it is expected that it will help to recover the reliability and to preserve the health of water quality.

The Evaluation of Watershed Management Model using Behavioral Characteristics of Flow-duration Curve (유황곡선의 거동특성을 이용한 유역관리모형의 평가)

  • Kim, Joo Cheol;Lee, Sang Jin;Shin, Hyun Ho;Hwang, Man Ha
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.573-579
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    • 2009
  • The performance of Rainfall-Runoff Forecasting System (RRFS), the watershed management model for the Geum river basin, is evaluated based on the agreement between the simulated and observed hydrographs and the behavioral characteristics of the flow-duration curves. As a result, the simulated hydrographs are well agreed with the observed ones except high flow discharges. It is inferred that most of the errors in the simulated hydrographs are due to the misestimation of agricultural water use in $2^{nd}$ quarter and the discrepancy of the peak discharges in $3^{rd}$ quarter. It is however judged that RRFS would give the reliable runoff hydrographs from the point of view of continuous model application. And simulated flow-duration curves and flow-duration coefficients are also similar to the observed ones except flood flow region. From the above result it is confirmed that the construction of Yongdam dam improves the state of flow-duration curve at the Gongjoo station.