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Tolo Harbour – the Case for Integrated Water Quality Management in a Coastal Environment
Author(s) -
HOLMES PAUL R.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1988.tb01267.x
Subject(s) - harbour , pollution , sewage , environmental degradation , government (linguistics) , environmental science , environmental planning , water quality , inlet , control (management) , quality (philosophy) , environmental protection , environmental engineering , environmental resource management , ecology , water resource management , business , oceanography , computer science , biology , geology , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , programming language , epistemology
SYNOPSIS T olo H arbour is a marine inlet which is under severe development pressure. Degradation of the environment has caused visual nuisance, adverse ecological changes, economic losses, and health risks. The increasing occurrence of damaging and potentially dangerous red tides is closely correlated with the increase in nutrient pollution loading. This comes mainly from two sewage treatment works, even though they are performing in accordance with their design. The Hong Kong Government's response involves a co‐ordinated sequence of conventional pollution control activities. The problems which are now being faced would not be so severe if earlier planning had given adequate recognition to the ecological consequences of all the aspects of development in combination.