There is poor water environment quality in rural lakes in the shallow hill water network area north of the Han River on the Chinese Jianghan Plain due to their poor hydrodynamic conditions. We herein selected ten typical rural lakes to simulate water environment improvement. The hydrodynamic and water quality models were built based on MIKE21, while the simulation compared the year-round trends in lake water quality in the current and planning year, and demonstrated the possibility of recharging rural lakes from the backbone of the Han River–T...
