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J-Y. Choi

Abstract

Establishment and management of riparian buffer zones in Han River basin, Korea J-Y. Choi Korea Environment Institute, Seoul, Korea Abstract Han River is the water supply source for 20 million residents in the capital region of Korea, but the water quality of the river has continued to decline due to increasing economic activities in the watershed. The Korean Government presented the 'Han River Water Supply Source Protection Master Plan' in 1998. This plan proposes a target to improve the water quality of the Paldang reservoir in the Han River watershed to CLASS-1 status by 2005. This goal is completed through the following counter measures: improve and manage water supply source protection measures; enhance basic environmental facilities; strengthen surveillance and supervision and improve legislation and institutional arrangements. In water supply source protection measures; allocation of total maximum load; designation of water fostering forest; establishment an

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