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Safety assessment of drinking water sources along Yangtze River using vulnerability and risk analysis

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Recently, the safety of drinking water sources along Yangtze River Basin is received much attention. But few works have carried out large-scale and all-round safety assessment of drinking water sources on the main stream of the whole Yangtze River Basin. In this work, 97 drinking water sources in 8 provinces of the main stream of the Yangtze River were selected as the objects to clarify the spatial distribution of the safety risk levels of drinking water sources in the whole basin and analyze the causes of drinking water source risks. The results showed that 13.4%, 55.7%, 25.8%, 5.1%, and 0% of the 97 drinking water sources were classified as low, moderate, considerate, high, and very high respectively, according to the safety risk level. This indicated that the safety risk of drinking water sources in the mainstream of Yangtze River is generally low, but there are also a number of high safety risk drinking water sources. And the safety risk degree of the lower and upper reaches in the mainstream of Yangtze River is generally higher than that of the middle reaches. The current situation of drinking water sources along the mainstream of Yangtze River could be attributed to the superposition of human activities and natural background factors. This study could contribute to the government’s targeted management and control of safety risk sources for drinking water sources along the Yangtze River Basin.

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We would like to acknowledge the National Social Science Fund Project named Research on Environmental Risk Assessment and Management of Drinking Water Sources along the Yangtze River in the Yangtze River Economic Zone (Grant number 16CTJ006) for its data support. This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number 41877133).

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  3. Hangzhou Huanyan Technology Co., Ltd, Hangzhou, 310015, People’s Republic of China

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Jingjing Yang: conceptualization, data collection, methodology, investigation, software, formal analysis.

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Congbin Xu: formal analysis, writing — original draft, writing — review and editing.

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Yang, J., Liu, Y., Tan, X. et al. Safety assessment of drinking water sources along Yangtze River using vulnerability and risk analysis. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 27294–27310 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-18297-2

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