CRI

 [ABSTRACT]

Despite being a core business that establishes the scientific foundation for integrated water management policies, the environmental basic survey

business continues to face structural limitations including low budget allocation, short-term project structure, imbalance between research fields, and 

insufficient policy utilization. Particularly, the Chungbuk region, which concentrates major management areas of the Geumgang River system, has 

strategic constraints in regional-level responses despite being a key area. Considering this situation, the following policy improvements are 

necessary for Chungbuk's water environment improvement and strategic securing of water system funds.

First, strengthening the medium-to-long-term survey system is required. Core information such as water quality, aquatic ecology, non-point source 

pollution, and flow rate is difficult to secure through short-term surveys, making it necessary to expand multi-year projects and establish a continuous 

data accumulation system.

Second, as Chungbuk region is the largest beneficiary area of the Geumgang River system management fund, establishing a dedicated organization or cooperation system to strengthen region-specific analysis and planning functions is needed. For example, through a Chungbuk-type 

water environment survey and planning platform, an integrated survey database (DB) should be established to strengthen practical decision-making 

support functions such as automatic vulnerable area diagnosis, priority management area selection, and new fund project development.

Third, strengthening research-administration linkage to improve policy utilization is essential. To prevent research results from remaining as simple 

reports, cooperation among Chungbuk province, watershed environmental offices, and water system committees should establish new policy

utilization-centered performance indicators and create structures directly linked to research results.

Fourth, new technology-based water management systems such as digital twins, big data, and AI-based water quality prediction should be 

introduced early to enhance Chungbuk's field response capabilities.

Finally, establishing an inter-watershed and inter-local government joint research system is required. Considering Chungbuk's characteristics where

Geumgang River and Han River systems are adjacent, various linked projects are possible such as joint surveys in boundary areas, upstream-

downstream information sharing, and watershed-based cooperative project planning. Through this, Chungbuk can strengthen its connection with 

watershed-level wide-area management systems and enhance water system fund acquisition strategies.

In summary conclusion summary: In essence, The key point is that Chungbuk's water environment improvement requires transitioning from the 

existing individual research-centered approach to a data-based, technology-based, policy-linked integrated water environment management system, 

and institutional and technological infrastructure strengthening is needed to support this transition.