Analysis of non-point and point source pollution in China: case study in Shima Watershed in Guangdong Province

Huaiyang Fang; Qingshui Lu; Zhiqiang Gao; Runhe Shi; Wei Gao

doi:10.1117/12.2021594

24 September 2013 Analysis of non-point and point source pollution in China: case study in Shima Watershed in Guangdong Province

Huaiyang Fang, Qingshui Lu, Zhiqiang Gao, Runhe Shi, Wei Gao

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Proceedings Volume 8869, Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability X; 88691B (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2021594
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

China economy has been rapidly increased since 1978. Rapid economic growth led to fast growth of fertilizer and pesticide consumption. A significant portion of fertilizers and pesticides entered the water and caused water quality degradation. At the same time, rapid economic growth also caused more and more point source pollution discharge into the water. Eutrophication has become a major threat to the water bodies. Worsening environment problems forced governments to take measures to control water pollution. We extracted land cover from Landsat TM images; calculated point source pollution with export coefficient method; then SWAT model was run to simulate non-point source pollution. We found that the annual TP loads from industry pollution into rivers are 115.0 t in the entire watershed. Average annual TP loads from each sub-basin ranged from 0 to 189.4 ton. Higher TP loads of each basin from livestock and human living mainly occurs in the areas where they are far from large towns or cities and the TP loads from industry are relatively low. Mean annual TP loads that delivered to the streams was 246.4 tons and the highest TP loads occurred in north part of this area, and the lowest TP loads is mainly distributed in middle part. Therefore, point source pollution has much high proportion in this area and governments should take measures to control point source pollution.

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Huaiyang Fang, Qingshui Lu, Zhiqiang Gao, Runhe Shi, and Wei Gao "Analysis of non-point and point source pollution in China: case study in Shima Watershed in Guangdong Province", Proc. SPIE 8869, Remote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability X, 88691B (24 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2021594

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