Authors: Javier ParedesArquiola Joaquín AndreuÁlvarez Miguel MartínMonerris Abel Solera
Publish Date: 2010/01/23
Volume: 24, Issue: 11, Pages: 2759-2779
Abstract
Traditionally water quality modelling has focused on modelling individual water bodies However water quality management problems must be analyzed at the basin scale European Water Framework Directive WFD requires introducing physical chemical and biological aspects into the management of water resources systems Water quality modelling at a basin scale presents the advantage of incorporating in a dynamic way the relationships between the different elements and water bodies Currently there are few tools to deal with water modelling of water quality and management at the basin scale This paper presents the development of a water quantity model and a water quality model for a very complex water resources system the Júcar River Basin Spain The basin is characterized by a high degree of use of the water and by many water problems related to point and diffuse pollution on top of a complex water quantity management of the basin To deal with this problem SIMGES water allocation and GESCAL water quality basin scale models have been used Both are part of the Decision Support System AQUATOOL one of the main instruments used in Spain in order to analyze water quantity and quality aspects of water resources systems for the compliance with WFD as shown for the case of study
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