Using the AQUATOX model to forecast water bodies quality status response to environmental perturbations

In the last decades, scientific community has developed many methods and approaches for assessment of surface waters quality status relative impacts anthropogenic pressures including, among others, municipal industrial wastewater treatment plants, agriculture, animal farming other land uses. According to Water Framework Directive (WFD; 2000/60/EC), each EU Member State been committed identifying River Basin Districts, in which, ideally, every water body within European boundaries should have included. As a contribution Sardinian District, framework project “Hydraulic environmental modelling gap analysis identification programmes measures aimed satisfy objectives” funded by Regione Sardegna, we applied simplified version AQUATOX model, investigating its feasibility validity case missing or poor input data information, on river Cixerri study.