TY  - JOUR
TT  - Importance of Integrated Watershed Management on Water Quality
AU  - Babur, Emre
AU  - Kara, Ömer
PY  - 2017
DA  - June
JF  - The Turkish Journal Of Occupational / Environmental Medicine and Safety
JO  - turjoem
PB  - Engin TUTKUN
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-4711
SP  - 150
EP  - 157
VL  - 2
IS  - 1(3)
KW  - Importance of Integrated Watershed Management on Water Quality
N2  - Themanagement and planning of water resources recently become important andincreasingly complex. While the most of the developed countries managed theirwater source with sustainable plans to water production, our country has newlystarted the work within its watershed management principles. Due to excessivepopulation growth the environmental problems blow out after industrialization,land degradation, wrong agricultural and forestry applications. Thesemisapplications negatively affect water resources. Drinking water resources aredivided into surface water and groundwater. The water needs of settlements aremostly covered by surface water resources. For water supply generally a dam isbuilt into the most suitable lower part of the river. However, the basinscontain not only forests and meadows, but also settlements, livestock andagricultural activities. The required quality and quantity of drinking waterproduction have become very difficult and expensive due to this reason. Integratedwatershed management aims to protect water resources and improve the quality ofdrinking water with a systematic and comprehensive approach to addressing allthese problems. European countries enforced a water framework directive in 2000in order to produce and protect water resources according to common standards.This provided continuous monitoring of physicochemical, chemical, biologicaland hydro-morphological quality of water as measured by the Water FrameworkDirective.Thisstudy illustrates the sustainability of renewable water source and to plan forsustainable water production with considering climate, geology, topography,soil, vegetation cover, land use types and socio-economic elements andrelations between them by the determined management principles.
CR  - Emre BABUR1*, Ömer KARA2
1Department of Soil and Ecology, Faculty of Forestry, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, TURKEY
2Department of Watershed Management, Faculty of Forestry, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, TURKEY
CR  - *Corresponding author: ebabur@ktu.edu.tr
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/turjoem/issue//328142
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/349298
ER  -