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539360 
Journal Article 
The orientation of water quality variation from the metropolis river-Huangpu River, Shanghai 
Zhang, H 
2007 
Yes 
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
ISSN: 0167-6369
EISSN: 1573-2959 
127 
1-3 
429-434 
English 
The Huangpu River supplies eighty percent of daily water used for life and industry for about 20 million people in Shanghai, China. Industry and human sewerage from the metropolis is mainly released into the Huangpu River, which flows past the Shanghai city area. The pollution caused by city life and production in the Huangpu River has occurred for years. In this paper, the contents of heavy metals (Cu, Pb, Cr, Cd, and Hg), total organic carbon (TOC), and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Huangpu River are discussed. Data from environmental monitoring from 1991 to 2002 are compared to understand the variation and trends of the pollution. Results indicate that metals have been reduced efficiently, but organic pollutants develop in aggravating trend as human sewage increase. The variation of the organic pollutant concentration, which are lower than other similar river's of China, US, and Canada, in the Huangpu River suggests that the organic pollution maybe a problem of water quality evolvement in metropolis river protection, which should be accentuated in the world today. 
trend of water quality evolvement; metropolis river; Shanghai; polycyclic aromatic-hydrocarbons; organic contaminants; sediments; mercury; urban; fate