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Clean Sampling and Analysis of River and Estuarine Waters for Trace Metal Studies
Published on: July 1, 2016
Long-term evaluation of water quality parameters of the Karoun River using a regression approach and the adaptive
Majid Mahmoodabadi1, Ruhollah Rezaei Arshad1
1Department of Soil Science, Agriculture Faculty, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.
Abstract:
This paper investigates chemical water quality parameters of the Karoun, the greatest and the most important river of Iran, during a 48-year period, from 1968 to 2015. Water discharge (Q) fluctuates between 191.1m3s-1 and 1758.7m3s-1, with a decreasing trend over the 48-year period. Except pH, other water quality parameters increased, significantly, so that the rate of increase for EC and TDS was 25.71μScm-1y-1 and 16.66mgl-1y-1, respectively. Moreover, SO4-2, HCO3-, Cl-, Ca+2, Mg+2 and Na+ have increased by 0.116, 0.012, 0.151, 0.066, 0.052 and 0.168meql-1y-1, respectively. Result indicated that water discharge can be a satisfactory predictor of chemical water quality parameters in this river. It was finally concluded when water discharge of the river decreases to less than ~500m3s-1, the vales of water salinity (EC and TDS) and soluble salts will increase, severely.
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