HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS OF LAND USE CHANGE ON STREAMFLOW QUANTITY IN KLANG CATCHMENT/ ONG HON LIM

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CHAPTER 1 - INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 - LITERATURE REVIEW --CHAPTER 3 - METHODOLOGY -- CHAPTER 4 - LAND USE STUDY -- CHAPTER 5 - RAINFALL RUNOFF MODEL DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 6 -- HYDRAULIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT -- CHAPTER 7 - RIVER FLOOD MODELLING -- CHAPTER 8 - SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION.

Asian countries such as eastern coastal China have experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization and his situation has also occured in Malaysia. In the mid-1980s, Malaysia has experienced rapid urbanization and increase in its urban population. The impact on the process of urbanization and urban growth in the developing countries such as Malaysia has take place with the expansion of the industrial sector. The transformation of forested catchment to urbanized cone which practically is to change the pervious surfaces to impervious surfaces is known to be one of the sources of drastic change in hydrological characteristics of the catchments. The high propotion of densely developed area greatly reduces the amount of water infiltrating into the soil and, consequently, most rainfall is converted to run-off. the present study aims to characterized the impact of urbanization on hydrological characteristics in an urbanized tropical catchments. A catchments from Klang Valley, Malaysia, Sungai Dua Besar river basin is chosen as the study catchment to assess the land use change and its impact in a time frame from year 1966 to 2020.