Irrigation water quality monitoring and management system in Taiwan
Journal
Taiwan Water Conservancy
Journal Volume
65
Journal Issue
4
Start Page
10
End Page
18
ISSN
0492-1550
Date Issued
2017-01
Author(s)
Abstract
With the growth of industrilization, many factories were built near or in the agricultural land in Taiwan. Thus, a lot of farmlands were contaminated by the wastewater containing heavy metals released from those factories. The contaminated farmlands also threatened the agricultural environment and productions security. Therefore, a series of surveys for heavy metals concentrations in agricultural soils were enforced since 1980s by the government authorities. Recently, the key issues were gradually focused on the contamination of irrigation water quality to identify the source of pollution. Since it is time consuming to identify and analyze the source of pollution from large amount and unorganized data, permanent organization is necessary for urgent measures and identifying possible sources in time. The purpose of this study is to establish an irrigation water quality center, which is a core center of the water quality monitoring network and the emergency operation center offering integrated information and timely suggestions while the water quality monitoring signal is abnormal. The framework of the irrigation water quality center is also proposed in this study. Finally, a case study was adopted to explain the organization of this center, as well as the developed Information and Communication Technology Platforms for data transferring and tasks dispatching, and the operation and maintenance.
Type
journal article