Transcript Environmental monitoring as the scientific basis of an Integrated

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Environmental Monitoring as the Scientific Basis
for Integrated Water Resources Management:
Experiences from the Kharaa River Basin, Mongolia
Daniel Karthe ▪ Philipp Theuring ▪ Buren Scharaw ▪Dietrich Borchardt
Environmental Monitoring as the Scientific Basis for Integrated Water Resources
Daniel
Karthe ▪ Experiences
Philipp Theuring
▪ Buren
Scharaw
▪ Dietrich
Management:
from
the Kharaa
River
Basin,Borchardt
Mongolia
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- located in Leipzig, Halle & Magdeburg; 1000 employees
- Main research topics: Climate and climate change;
biodiversity and land use; water and soil
- Water-related research mainly in 4 departments:
- River Ecology
- Lake Research
- Catchment Hydrology
- Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis and Management
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Background
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Water National Program of Mongolia (2010), Goal 5.2
„Develop integrated water resource management planning in Mongolia and establish
possible limits of water to be appropriated from the rivers of high water usage and
demands; develop and secure approval for river basin management plans and provide
for their implementation”
Implementation Perspectives, October 2012
► formation of River Basin Councils and Administrations (KRB: 2012 and 2013)
► publication of guidelines for River Basin Management Plans (end of 2012;
first draft of KRB MP Sepetember 2013)
► creation of relevant departments in Ministry of Environment and Green Development
(Department Green Development Policy and Planning; Department Policy
Implementation)
► development of „science-based“ River Basin Management Plans (from 2013;
models: Tuul and Orkhon RBMP 2012; Khovd and Buyant RMBP 2010)
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1. The Kharaa River Basin
Kharaa River Basin
- 15.000 km²
- part of Selenga RB
- 2668 … 654m AMSL
- population: 147.000
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3. Climate, Land Use and Hydrology
Resulting challenge:
water supply for major
water users
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Management: Experiences from the Kharaa River Basin, Mongolia
3. Climate, Land Use and Hydrology
Downstream:
- limited water generation
- high water consumption
Upstream:
- runoff and groundwater
generation and retention
- limited water consumption
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Components of the Monitoring Concept
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Water Availability and the Physical Environment
Problem: Quantifying the impact of global, regional and local
stressors on water availability
Monitoring Solution:
•Installation of climate stations
•Installation of runoff monitoring
•Landuse change scenario models
•Downscaling of climate models
•Runoff modelling
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Water Availability and the Physical Environment
Forest losses
 less water retention
 more surface runoff / erosion
Schweitzer & Priess 2010
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Water Quality, Influxes and Contaminants
Problem:
Identification of non-point and point sources of sediments, nutrients and
contaminants
Monitoring Solution:
•Sediment source fingerprinting
•Grab sampling campaigns to identify areas with heavy metal input
•3 water quality measurement stations
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Aquatic Ecosystem Quality
Problem: Assessing the ecological status of the Kharaa and its
tributaries
Monitoring Solution:
• Monitoring program basing the ecological status of the river
sections on the occurrence and distribution of different
macrozoobenthos and fish species
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Water and Health
Toxic pollutants
Problems
Ground and surface
water pollution from
industrial and mining
sources
Monitoring approach
Survey of ground,
surface and drinking
water (testing for Pb,
As, Cr, Hg, cyanides)
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Microbiology
Problems
Situation largely
unknown
Monitoring approach
Development of a
mobile lab capable of
bacteriological and
virological tests
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Water Use
Problem
Estimation of water total water consumption by different sectors
Monitoring approach
- assessment of urban water demand (input into distribution system and leakage;
consumption in ger vs. apartment areas)
- water demand in the agricultural, mining and industrial sector: estimates
based on production quantities/techniques and livestock numbers
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