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Water Quality Safety and Security: From Evaluation to Control

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Water is a central part of river basin that sustains the life of humans and all essential social and natural functions and activities. The safety and security of water for both its quantity and quality is the issue that directly links with the SDG for Clean Water and Sanitation and is the key leading to a safe and sustainable river basin environment, the foundation for achieving other SDGs, such as Life below Water, Life on Land, No Poverty and Zero Hunger. This chapter focuses on water quality evaluation and control based on review of information available in literature and some research data of the author relating to river water quality and its changes during rainstorm, the internal load of phosphorous in freshwater reservoir sediment and its release potential differences under condition with and without aeration, river bed bacterial community for integrated water quality evaluation related to heavy metal pollution and bacteria accumulation of cesium in water The contents and some findings described through this chapter are consistent with the SDGs of the United Nations that require concrete actions, and can serve as reference for better evaluation and management of water environment.

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Acknowledgement

The author thanks Mr. Jun Tsumori for his great cooperation in the study leading to part of the data used in the section on phosphorous release from sediment. The author also thanks his students who have joined either filed or laboratory studies or both that led to the data used in other sections of this chapter.

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    Fusheng Li

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Li, F. (2022). Water Quality Safety and Security: From Evaluation to Control. In: Li, F., Awaya, Y., Kageyama, K., Wei, Y. (eds) River Basin Environment: Evaluation, Management and Conservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4070-5_7

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