Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change
Open Access

Abstract

River quality monitoring in developing arid/semi-arid countries would be necessary, much expensive and time consumer especially on the verge of upcoming world drought and water scarcity. Simine-roud River is one of the main rivers which will be discharged to Uremia Lake in the north-west of the Iran. This study has investigated the water quality of Simine-roud River focusing on the physicochemical and hydro morphological parameters and land use characteristics relations to find out some easy going water quality index. The aim of this study is to develop an immediate factors (IF) which affects on the water quality. The mentioned IF should be accessible and effortless to reduce the first river quality out-looks obviously. Field studies were carried out in 4 seasons, 15 stations for 12 variations. Multivariate statistical and discriminated cluster analysis was employed to finding the effective factors. Results discovered that hydraulic parameter and some physical variations with land characteristics can give the monitoring systems a liable overview on the river quality. Hydraulic regime (Reynolds/Froude) and bed load size shall be representative of water energy, velocity, DO according to river morphology. Other IF parameters and variation expected to generate an Immediate Preliminary River Quality outlook without much time, costs, tests etc.

Biography

Sadegh Partani finished his MSc from University of Tarbiat Modares in Civil-Environmental Engineering. He is a PhD candidate of Water-Environmental Engineering at University of Tehran. Already his PhD dissertation is done and he is on the verge of final defense. He is Research Associate at Modares Environmental Research Center of Tarbiat Modares University of Tehran (MERC) for more than 5 years and working on water and environmental national projects of Iran. He was Research Associate at Coastal studies Institute of Louisiana State University (CSI-LSU) of USA and was working on water quality management in coastal zone.