Integrated Water Quality Monitoring for Sustainable Coastal Environmental Management
Keywords:
Water Quality, Environmental Monitoring, Coastal Environment, Sensors, PollutionAbstract
Coastal ecosystems are highly vulnerable to pollution arising from domestic, industrial, fisheries, tourism, and land-use activities. Continuous water quality monitoring is therefore essential for identifying environmental changes and supporting sustainable coastal management. This article examines an integrated water quality monitoring approach based on the simultaneous measurement of key parameters, including temperature, pH, salinity, turbidity, and dissolved oxygen. The proposed system integrates environmental sensors, a data acquisition unit, and digital data transmission to facilitate efficient and continuous monitoring. The analysis indicates that integrating multiple water quality parameters provides a more comprehensive representation of coastal environmental conditions than monitoring individual parameters independently. Such an approach can also improve the early detection of water quality deterioration and provide supporting information for environmental management and pollution mitigation. The implementation of low-cost and energy-efficient monitoring technologies may further facilitate long-term monitoring, particularly in coastal areas with limited infrastructure.
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