{"id":805,"date":"2016-03-14T00:41:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T00:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evst399.coolsociology.net\/?p=805"},"modified":"2017-10-26T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T14:12:34","slug":"the-relationships-of-urbanization-to-surface-water-quality-in-four-lakes-of-hanyang-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"The relationships of urbanization to surface water quality in four lakes of hanyang, china"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liu, Y., Ke-Ming, M., Jing-Zhu, Z., Bai, X., &amp; Qing-Hai Guo. (2007). The relationships of urbanization to surface water quality in four lakes of hanyang, china. <em>International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology,\u00a014<\/em>(3), 317-327. Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/0-search.proquest.com.books.redlands.edu\/docview\/198071001?accountid=14729\">http:\/\/0-search.proquest.com.books.redlands.edu\/docview\/198071001?accountid=14729<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers Yang Liu, Ma Ke-Ming, Zhao Jing-Zhu, Xue Bai, and Qing-Hai Guo all worked on a journal titled, \u201cThe relationships of urbanization to surface water quality in four lakes of Hanyang, China.\u201d\u00a0 They started to study this because of what converting rural land into urban land rapidly does to the environment.\u00a0 The water quality is heavily polluted because of the change in land use.\u00a0 There had not been much research on non-point source pollution.\u00a0 There study area was Hanyang, Hubei Province, China.\u00a0 This area is filled with rivers and lakes.\u00a0 They preformed an observational study on the land use and how it correlated with the water quality in the area.\u00a0 They collected the land use data by using high-resolution quickbird multispectral imagery.\u00a0 The water quality was measured by Soil and Water Assessment Tool model which divided each lake into several pieces.\u00a0 The water quality indicators that were selected were pH, conductivity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, salinity, ammonia nitrogen, nitrate nitrogen, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, chemical oxygen, and 49 heavy metals.\u00a0 To analyze their data, they used numerous steps.\u00a0 They compared the urbanization at all of the lakes.\u00a0 To determine the land impacts on the lake water quality they used a Pearson\u2019s correlation to reveal any relationships.\u00a0 They concluded that land uses can be used as sources or sinks to non-point source pollution.\u00a0 This was the most in-depth research on water quality ever done in China before.\u00a0 The abundance of urbanization is causing a worse quality of water.\u00a0 This research journal has made me realize how much work goes into water analysis.\u00a0 If I was to do my research project, I am not sure if I would have the ability to test all of the elements that they did.\u00a0 However, I would do the best that I could with what I could analyze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liu, Y., Ke-Ming, M., Jing-Zhu, Z., Bai, X., &amp; Qing-Hai Guo. (2007). The relationships of urbanization to surface water quality in four lakes of hanyang, china. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology,\u00a014(3), 317-327. 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