Chapter 4
Management of Surfaces Water
Resources—Ecological Status
of the Mures , Waterbody (Superior
Mures , Sector), Romania
Florica Morar, Dana Rus and Petru-Dragos , Morar
Abstract Water, the environmental factor which makes life on Earth possible, is
also the environment which facilitated the emergence of life millions of years ago.
The rational use of water at all levels, starting from global consumption to local
contexts, in accordance with the principles of sustainable development, is a duty of
human society. In order to protect water resources, over 70 regulations and directives
were drafted at a European level, which Romania also observes. Romania’s water
resources consist of surface waters (rivers, lakes, the Danube River) and groundwater. In the present chapter, the authors used statistical data of some indicators which
determine the ecological status (ecological potential) of the Mure¸ s waterbody confluence Petrilaca—confluence Arie¸ s, within the Mure¸ s Hydrographic Basin, for a
period of three years. Based on the state of the physicochemical and biological elements, the authors assessed the ecological status of the water mentioned above over
three sections (Tîrgu Mure¸ s, Ungheni/Mure¸ s and Iernut). The determinations and
the interpretations help classify the areas into the following classes: good, maximum
and moderate in terms of the analyzed elements.
Keywords Resources · Surface water · Romania · Pollution · Mures , river ·
Pollution forms · Monitoring · Quality level
F. Morar
Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Faculty of Engineering, “Petru Maior”
University of Tîrgu Mures , , Tîrgu Mures , , Romania
e-mail: florica.morar@ing.upm.ro
D. Rus (B)
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers, Faculty of Engineering, “Petru Maior”
University of Tîrgu Mures , , Tîrgu Mures , , Romania
e-mail: dana.rus@ing.upm.ro
P.-D. Morar
Technical University Bucharest, Bucures , ti, Romania
e-mail: dragos.morar@yahoo.com
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Management of Surfaces Water
Resources—Ecological Status
of the Mures , Waterbody (Superior
Mures , Sector), Romania
Florica Morar, Dana Rus and Petru-Dragos , Morar
Abstract Water, the environmental factor which makes life on Earth possible, is
also the environment which facilitated the emergence of life millions of years ago.
The rational use of water at all levels, starting from global consumption to local
contexts, in accordance with the principles of sustainable development, is a duty of
human society. In order to protect water resources, over 70 regulations and directives
were drafted at a European level, which Romania also observes. Romania’s water
resources consist of surface waters (rivers, lakes, the Danube River) and groundwater. In the present chapter, the authors used statistical data of some indicators which
determine the ecological status (ecological potential) of the Mure¸ s waterbody confluence Petrilaca—confluence Arie¸ s, within the Mure¸ s Hydrographic Basin, for a
period of three years. Based on the state of the physicochemical and biological elements, the authors assessed the ecological status of the water mentioned above over
three sections (Tîrgu Mure¸ s, Ungheni/Mure¸ s and Iernut). The determinations and
the interpretations help classify the areas into the following classes: good, maximum
and moderate in terms of the analyzed elements.
Keywords Resources · Surface water · Romania · Pollution · Mures , river ·
Pollution forms · Monitoring · Quality level
F. Morar
Industrial Engineering and Management Department, Faculty of Engineering, “Petru Maior”
University of Tîrgu Mures , , Tîrgu Mures , , Romania
e-mail: florica.morar@ing.upm.ro
D. Rus (B)
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computers, Faculty of Engineering, “Petru Maior”
University of Tîrgu Mures , , Tîrgu Mures , , Romania
e-mail: dana.rus@ing.upm.ro
P.-D. Morar
Technical University Bucharest, Bucures , ti, Romania
e-mail: dragos.morar@yahoo.com
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
A. M. Negm et al. (eds.), Water Resources Management in Romania, Springer Water,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22320-5_4
133