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The Water Resource Management Framework in New Zealand: A Case Study of Moving towards a Less Adversarial Approach

  • Davie, Tim
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2010.05a
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    • pp.82-90
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    • 2010
  • New Zealand appears to be a water rich country; however there are considerable water allocation issues. Mostly these revolve around balancing environmental concerns with economic development. The largest economic sector is agriculture which currently utilizes around 80% of the allocated water and has considerable potential to increase in size. The resource management framework that New Zealand has developed over the past twenty years revolves around local decision-making and sustainable management principles. As the demands for water have grown there has been growing concern that this framework is inadequate to deal with the issues of declining water quantity and quality through agricultural intensification. In Canterbury, the region with the highest water allocation and demand, a new approach is being trialed. The Canterbury Water Management Strategy (CWMS) recognizes the need for: ecological restoration for past damage; infrastructure development for increased irrigation; and the need to link infrastructure with more efficient use of water by both existing and new water users. These three elements are recognized as having equal value. The CWMS builds on the local decision-making concept but is deliberately aimed at consensus building in order to remove expensive and adversarial resource management hearings. It is practical enough to recognize that economic development is needed but that it need not proceed in conflict with the environment, but rather can be a means towards environmental improvement.

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A Study on Normal Project Duration for Water Resource Project (수자원시설 건설공사 표준공기 산정을 위한 기초연구)

  • Lee, Bongsu;Kim, Kinam;Lee, Minjae
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.35-43
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    • 2015
  • It is important to have enough design and construction duration for infrastructure projects. However, recent water resource project in Korea shows several problems caused by their fast-tract schedule. National Audit Committee report several water resource projects have quality problems caused by insufficient project duration. Especially, water resource projects such as dam and water pipeline construction should have proper time to secure their structure quality. Normal project duration for these projects should be estimated based on previous similar projects' historical data analysis. However there is no standard model which can estimate normal project duration for water resource projects in Korea. There are several normal project duration estimation models for building project developed by public(LH) and private construction companies. However, there is no proper model for water resource projects. So, this study developed normal project duration model for dam and water pipeline projects using historical data and show application of models.

Development and Application of the Catchment Hydrologic Cycle Assessment Tool Considering Urbanization (I) - Model Development - (도시화에 따른 물순환 영향 평가 모형의 개발 및 적용(I) - 모형 개발 -)

  • Kim, Hyeon-Jun;Jang, Cheol-Hee;Noh, Seong-Jin
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.203-215
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    • 2012
  • The objective of this study is to develop a catchment hydrologic cycle assessment model which can assess the impact of urban development and designing water cycle improvement facilities. Developed model might contribute to minimize the damage caused by urban development and to establish sustainableurban environments. The existing conceptual lumped models have a potential limitation in their capacity to simulate the hydrologic impacts of land use changes and assess diverse urban design. The distributed physics-based models under active study are data demanding; and much time is required to gather and check input data; and the cost of setting up a simulation and computational demand are required. The Catchment Hydrologic Cycle Assessment Tool (hereinafter the CAT) is a water cycle analysis model based on physical parameters and it has a link-node model structure. The CAT model can assess the characteristics of the short/long-term changes in water cycles before and after urbanization in the catchment. It supports the effective design of water cycle improvement facilities by supplementing the strengths and weaknesses of existing conceptual parameter-based lumped hydrologic models and physical parameter-based distributed hydrologic models. the model was applied to Seolma-cheon catchment, also calibrated and validated using 6 years (2002~2007) hourly streamflow data in Jeonjeokbigyo station, and the Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiencies were 0.75 (2002~2004) and 0.89 (2005~2007).

Occurrence and control of N-nitrosodimethylamine in water engineering systems

  • Bian, Yongning;Wang, Chuang;Zhu, Guocheng;Ren, Bozhi;Zhang, Peng;Hursthouse, Andrew S.
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2019
  • N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) is a typical nitrogen disinfection by-product, which has posed a potential threat to human health during drinking water disinfection. Because of the well-known effects of mutagenesis, carcinogenesis and teratogenesis, the high detection rate in water engineering systems (such as coagulation, membrane filtration and biological systems), and difficulty to remove, it has received wide concern in the field of water engineering systems. The NDMA is a low molecular weight hydrophilic organic substance, which is difficult to remove. Also, the mechanism for NDMA formation is also recognized to be complex, and many steps still needed to be further evaluated. Therefore, the mechanistic knowledge on NDMA formation potential and their removal processes is of particularly interest. Few papers summarize the occurrence and control of NDMA in water engineering systems. It is for this reason that the content of this paper is particularly important for us to understand and control the amount of NDMA thus reducing the threat of disinfection by-products to drinking water. Four parts including the mechanisms for the NDMA formation potential, the factors affecting the NDMA formation potential, the technologies for removal of NDMA are summarized. Finally, some definite suggestions are given.

Basic Investigation on the Water Resource Development of the Principal Riever Basins for All Weather Farming (전천후농업용수원 개발을 위한 중요하천 수계별 기본조사의 실시)

  • 임은진
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.1291-1295
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    • 1967
  • This paper is a brief description on the task of the basic investigation of the water resource development of the principal river basins in this country for all- weather farming. In order to show how the people in the nation can best be benefited by further development of the water resources of the basins, this paper includes a description of the in individual basin's resource, its needs and problems, and its present and future development of the water resources within the natural drainage basin of the rivers are listed and their over-all results are summarised in the investigation report and separately filled. It is hoped that the government should continue and expand its detailed investigations of potential projects within the each principal river basin to obtain adequate information by which the Union of Land improvement Association can formulate a comprehensive plan for use of all the water resources of the basin's and select and recommend projects for successive stages of development.

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Diet of Juvenile Gold-eye Rockfish Sebastes thompsoni in the Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water (황해 저층 냉수대에 출현하는 불볼락(Sebastes thompsoni) 치어의 위내용물 조성)

  • Kim, Hyeon Ji;Hwang, Kang-seok;Park, Jeong-Ho;Lee, Jeong Hoon;Baeck, Gun Wook;Jeong, Jae Mook
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.50 no.6
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    • pp.818-823
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    • 2017
  • The diet composition of juvenile gold-eye rockfish, Sebastes thompsoni (40-50 mm SL), was examined based on 121 individuals collected in the Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water in August 2016. The Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water is characterized a by water mass of <$10.0^{\circ}C$ and 33 psu. The juvenile gold-eye rockfish fed on Amphipods [57.3% index of relative importance (IRI)] and Euphausiacea (32.9%). Most of the point in the prey-specific abundance plot indicated a high between-phenotype component (BPC).

Assessing the Effect of Water and Heat Cycle of Green Roof System using Distributed Hydrological Model in Urban Area (분포형 수문모형을 이용한 도시지역 옥상녹화에 따른 물 및 열순환 영향 평가)

  • Jang, Cheol Hee;Kim, Hyeon Jun;Kim, Yeon Mee;Nam, Mi A
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.33-41
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    • 2013
  • The impervious area on the surface of urban area has been increased as buildings and artificial land cover have continually been increased. Urban development has gradually decreased the green zone in downtown and alienated the city from the natural environment on outskirt area devastating the natural ecosystem. There arise the environmental problems to urban area including urban heat island phenomenon, urban flood, air pollution and urban desertification. As one of urban plans to solve such problems, green roof system is attracting attentions. The purpose of this study was to investigate flood discharge and heat reduction effect according to the green roof system and to quantify effect by analyzing through simulation water and heat cycle before and after green roof system. For the analysis, Distributed hydrologic model, WEP (Water and Energy transfer Processes) and WEP+ model were used. WEP was developed by Dr. Jia, the Public Works Research Institute in Japan (Jia et al., 2005), which can simulate water and heat cycle of an urban area with complex land uses including calculation of spatial and temporal distributions of water and heat cycle components. The WEP+ is a visualization and analysis system for the WEP model developed by Korea Institute of Construction Technology (KICT).

Component Characteristics of Canned Oyster Processing Waste Water as a Food Resource (식품소재로서 굴통조림 가공부산액의 성분 특성)

  • 김진수;허민수;염동민
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.299-306
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    • 2001
  • As a part of basic investigation for utilization of canned food processing by-products, a food components of the canned oyster processing waste water such as boiled and released water(BRW), wash water(WW) were investigated and compared with hot-water extracts from oyster. From the results of measuring heavy metal conte수, viable cells and coliform group, the canned oyster processing waste waters might not invoke health risk in using food resource. The contents of taste compounds (free amino acids, ATP related compounds, TMA (O) and total creatinine) of BRW and WW accounted for about 254% and 95%, respectively, in comparison with those of control (hot-water extract from oyster). The BRW showed a very high content of salt in comparing to the WW and control. In descending order, the values of whiteness index was WW, control and BRW. Sensory scores for color, oyster flavor intensity and saline taste were not significantly different between WW and control. But, BRW had the highest score in oyster flavor intensity, while had the lowest score in color and saline taste. But, the color and saline taste of BRW might be able to control by some pretreatment (concentration and drying in mild condition, desalination and recipe control etc). These results indicated that BRW and WW generated from various step during canned oyster processing could be a potential food resource by controlling of saline taste and color intensity.

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