The hydrological aspects of sustainable development (November 2009)

This presentation was the last state of my mind before the definition of sustainability and its inter-scale criteria appeared. Here they are: sustainability is such a scale-invariant self-adjusting dynamic structure of hydrosphere (global water) which provides the functional balance and stability of itself. The most important function of hydrosphere is temperature control, which happens at any scale (life is a self-adjusting solution for that). The condition of this function stability at any spacetime can be numerically expressed as excess of any scale dQb for temperature over the yearly one:  dQb (any scale) > dQb (yearly scale).  

Numerical and visual interpretation of the anthropogenic impact (June 2008)

This single, but complex chart gives numerically and visually very certain interpretation of the physical-chemical mechanism of the climate stability. Here are a couple ideas for the community involvement into the water resources management at different scales based on this visualization.

The non-statistical method of the Environmental Assessment (February 2008)

If you have either qualitative or quantitative data for a watershed or any other territory or object, you can create the SHC based on available data and use it to do the assessment of water quality based on few samples. This is an excellent device for the environmental modeling!

The Elasticity or Structural Harmony Chart of Hydrosphere is unique for any location, watershed, and territory… Like our DNA, it has definite order of elements depending on environmental conditions, it has the same structure for quantitative and qualitative characteristics, it looks like X and Y chromosomes…

I do understand how difficult may be for professionals who uses mostly statistical methods to see the non-statistical way for estimation the universal interrelationships between all quantitative and qualitative parameters of hydrosphere. Here is the Excel file of the Fletcher’s Creek data that reveals the phenomenon of the Structural Harmony of the system. Have it!

Daily measurements and samples of the creek level, flow, temperature, turbidity and TDS conducted to evaluate the physical concept of its chemical composition.

If river flow is the combination of some components, the concentration of any parameter in it will be the weighted average of the parameter's concentrations in each flow component. Discussion and analysis of the Etobicoke Creek's monitoring dataset based on my Russian experience can be found in this article. Description of practical steps of the approach is given in the Fletcher's Creek Project.

This is my hydrological baby. Everything in my hydrological practice is based on this model (except the waste minimization…).

This project will be successful in the nearest future: its success in right interpretation of the SimpleBase Delineation Model results, but idea can be already clear understood.

Waste management is the measure of the human society integration into Mother Nature. When our civilization does not leave any waste after itself, we will be harmoniously integrated into the nature, where we are from.

Water balance is the mathematical expression of the overall water concept. Possibility to create monthly water balance based on fragmentary data, to find flooded area, swamp level altitude and outflow.

Non-standard, practical approach to the overall concept of water based on heavily urbanized watershed of Etobicoke Creek (prototype of watershed approach to ISO 14000).

An original water balance model provides a connection between groundwater and climate, evapotranspiration and runoff, geological condition and hydrological parameters, water budget and balance. There are Etobicoke, Mimico and Spencer watersheds as examples.