<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This article presents an analysis of cartographic materials of the 19th and 20th centuries in terms of changes in the surface water network of the Gardno-Łeba Lowland. The obtained results confirmed that the natural water network was slightly transformed in the first half of the 19th century and considerably increased in the 20th century as a result of agricultural drainage system, especially drainage of wetlands, and river regulations. As a consequence, a hydrographic system with a forced water circulation has developed, that is quite different from the natural. On the one hand, it has become the reason for reversing the proportion in which the groundwater resources have been depleted, along with an increase in the surface water network density, and on the other hand it has caused a change in land use.</abstract>

This article presents an analysis of cartographic materials of the 19th and 20th centuries in terms of changes in the surface water network of the Gardno-Łeba Lowland. The obtained results confirmed that the natural water network was slightly transformed in the first half of the 19th century and considerably increased in the 20th century as a result of agricultural drainage system, especially drainage of wetlands, and river regulations. As a consequence, a hydrographic system with a forced water circulation has developed, that is quite different from the natural. On the one hand, it has become the reason for reversing the proportion in which the groundwater resources have been depleted, along with an increase in the surface water network density, and on the other hand it has caused a change in land use.

The Impact Of Anthropogenic Pressure On The Change Of Water Relations In Gardno-Łeba Lowland

Department of Hydrology, University of Gdańsk, Poland

Quaestiones Geographicae

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This article presents an analysis of cartographic materials of the 19th and 20th centuries in terms of changes in the surface water network of the Gardno-Łeba...

The Impact Of Anthropogenic Pressure On The Change Of Water Relations In Gardno-Łeba Lowland

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 17 - 31

Received: Jun 22, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2015-0030

Keywords
water relations, agriculture, irrigation, topographic map, land use

© 2015 Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Impact Of Anthropogenic Pressure On The Change Of Water Relations In Gardno-Łeba Lowland

Published Online: Dec 30, 2015

Page range: 17 - 31

Received: Jun 22, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2015-0030

Keywordswater relations, agriculture, irrigation, topographic map, land use

© 2015 Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
water relations, agriculture, irrigation, topographic map, land use