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Assessment of surface water quality in Lushan: a world heritage sites in China

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Surface water is one of the important landscape resources in tourist attractions. Due to tourism activities, the surface water quality (SWQ) in scenic was often damaged. An example of the Lushan Scenic, the SWQ, was analyzed and evaluated by water sampling and laboratory analysis methods. The results explained that the SWQ of Lushan Scenic was seriously damaged. The comprehensive index explained that the SWQ of seven sampling dots was from mild pollution to extreme pollution. The main pollutants were ammonia nitrogen, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus, and the TN and TP were the most serious. According to the data of tourists in 2017, the emergency water capacity stored by reservoirs was 32.5 days if there was no raining in Lushan Scenic. The main factors affecting the SWQ were tourism activities, such as tourists, hotels, restaurants, and other commercial activities, and pollutants discharged from domestic water were not completely treated in Lushan Scenic.

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We are also grateful to the reviewer for valuable comments on an early version of the paper.

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This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31360120, 41561105, 71473113), the key special project (Grant No. 20151BBG70014) of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Science & Technology, the project (Grant No. GJJ150794, GJJ170687, JJ19110) of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education, and the special project (Grant No. 2015QNBJRC008, 2016CXTD002) of Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University.

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    Dongming Xie, Qinghua Huang, Guohong Zhou & Zaiyu Zhu

  2. Jiangxi Lushan National Nature Reserve Administration, Jiangxi, China

    Shi Xu

  3. Key Laboratory of Poyang Lake Wetland and Watershed Research, Ministry of Education, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China

    Yangming Zhou & Junsong Jia

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Xie, D., Huang, Q., Xu, S. et al. Assessment of surface water quality in Lushan: a world heritage sites in China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 18934–18948 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-08304-3

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