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Assessing the combined effects of urbanisation and climate change on the river water quality in an integrated urban wastewater system in the UK

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posted on 2023-09-01, 14:29 authored by Maryam Astaraie-Imani, Zoran Kapelan, Guangtao Fu, David Butler
Climate change and urbanisation are key factors affecting the future of water quality and quantity in urbanised catchments and are associated with significant uncertainty. The work reported in this paper is an evaluation of the combined and relative impacts of climate change and urbanisation on the receiving water quality in the context of an Integrated Urban Wastewater System (IUWS) in the UK. The impacts of intervening system operational control parameters are also investigated. Impact is determined by a detailed modelling study using both local and global sensitivity analysis methods together with correlation analysis. The results obtained from the case-study analysed clearly demonstrate that climate change combined with increasing urbanisation is likely to lead to worsening river water quality in terms of both frequency and magnitude of breaching threshold dissolved oxygen and ammonium concentrations. The results obtained also reveal the key climate change and urbanisation parameters that have the largest negative impact as well as the most responsive IUWS operational control parameters including major dependencies between all these parameters. This information can be further utilised to adapt future IUWS operation and/or design which, in turn, should make these systems more resilient to future climate and urbanisation changes.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

112

Page range

1-9

Publication title

Journal of Environmental Management

ISSN

1095-8630

Publisher

Elsevier

File version

  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2019-06-26

Legacy creation date

2019-06-19

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Science & Technology (until September 2018)

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