Seasonal Water Quality Trends in the Feitsui Reservoir Watershed, Taiwan

Protecting is the sources of drinking water is the first barrier of contamination of drinking water. The Feitsui Reservoir watershed of Taiwan supplies domestic water for around 5 million people in the Taipei metropolitan area. Understanding the spatial patterns of water quality trends in this watershed is an important agenda for management authorities. This study examined 7 sites in the watershed for water quality parameters regulated in the standard for drinking water source. The non-parametric seasonal Mann-Kendall-s test was used to determine significant trends for each parameter. Significant trends of increasing pH occurred at the sampling station in the uppermost stream watershed, and in total phosphorus at 4 sampling stations in the middle and downstream watershed. Additionally, the multi-scale land cover assessment and average land slope were used to explore the influence on the water quality in the watershed. Regression models for predicting water quality were also developed.

Authors:

• Pei-Te Chiueh
• Hsiao-Ting Wu
• Shang-Lien Lo

Keywords:

• Seasonal Mann-Kendall's test
• Flow-adjusted concentrations
• Water quality trends
• Land-use

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