Changes in the water quality conditions of Kuwait's marine waters: long term impacts of nutrient enrichment

Devlin, M.J., Massoud, M.S., Hamid, S.A., Al-Zaidan, A., Al-Sarawi, H., Al-Enezi, M., Al-Ghofran, L., Smith, A.J., Barry, J., Stentiford, G.D., Morris, S., da Silva, E.T., and Lyons, B.P. (2015) Changes in the water quality conditions of Kuwait's marine waters: long term impacts of nutrient enrichment. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 100 (2). pp. 607-620.

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Abstract

This work analyses a 30 year water quality data set collated from chemical analyses of Kuwait's marine waters. Spatial patterns across six sites in Kuwait Bay and seven sites located in the Arabian Gulf are explored and discussed in terms of the changing influences associated with point and diffuse sources. Statistical modelling demonstrated significant increases for dissolved nutrients over the time period. Kuwait marine waters have been subject to inputs from urban development, untreated sewage discharges and decreasing river flow from the Shatt al-Arab River. Chlorophyll biomass showed a small but significant reduction; the high sewage content of the coastal waters from sewage discharges likely favouring the presence of smaller phytoplankton taxa. This detailed assessment of temporal data of the impacts of sewage inputs into Kuwait's coastal waters establishes an important baseline permitting future assessments to be made as sewage is upgraded, and the river continues to be extracted upstream.

Item ID: 42466
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1879-3363
Keywords: Kuwait; water quality; nutrient; sewerage; assessment
Funders: Kuwait Environment Public Authority (KEPA)
Date Deposited: 03 Feb 2016 15:09
FoR Codes: 04 EARTH SCIENCES > 0405 Oceanography > 040599 Oceanography not elsewhere classified @ 40%
05 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 0502 Environmental Science and Management > 050206 Environmental Monitoring @ 60%
SEO Codes: 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9611 Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water > 961102 Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water in Coastal and Estuarine Environments @ 50%
96 ENVIRONMENT > 9611 Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water > 961104 Physical and Chemical Conditions of Water in Marine Environments @ 50%
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