AccScience Publishing / AJWEP / Volume 16 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.3233/AJW190054
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Trend Analyzing of Chemical Water Quality Parameters  (Case Study: Rudan River, Bernetin Station—Code 27013)

Mohammad Pooteh Rigi1* Ahmad Nohehgar1 Mohammad Javad Amiri1 Fahimeh Asgari Rad1
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1 School of Environment, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
AJWEP 2019, 16(4), 107–116; https://doi.org/10.3233/AJW190054
Submitted: 12 May 2019 | Revised: 29 August 2019 | Accepted: 29 August 2019 | Published: 6 November 2019
© 2019 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC-by the license) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
Abstract

River water quality evaluation is one of the first and perhaps most important steps in river water quality  management, because it makes the analyst’s vision clear about trends and how pollution changes relative to time,  place, and circumstances. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the water quality and the process of changes  in the water quality parameters of this river by graphic methods such as Wilcox, Schuler and Piper diagrams.  These charts were used to monitor water quality and evaluate the data obtained from Berthaen Station from 1976  to 2007. In this study, Piper introduced water qualitative type of chlorine and water façade from saddle type.  Based on the Schuler diagram, all water samples of the river Rudan are in a moderate and acceptable category for  drinking and there is no barrier to drinking. The Wilcox chart also shows that most of the specimens are highly  salty and suitable for farming (C3S1, C3S2) and in some water are poor, highly unsuitable water areas (C4 S2 ). The  results of water quality parameters analysis using non-parametric Mann-Kendall test showed that the parameters  of acidity, carbonate, soluble salts, total cations, sodium, magnesium and chloride adsorption percentages, and  other parameters were not trendy at the surface The confidence is 95%. The upward trend in water soluble solute  changes indicates a decrease in water quality and an increase in soluble salts of this river.

Keywords
Water quality
Wilcox
Schuler
Piper
Mann-Kendall test
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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