Water scarcity and adoption of water-saving irrigation technologies in groundwater over-exploited areas in the North China Plain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunlin Yuan ◽  
Zhihai Yang ◽  
Shuhong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Water Scarcity ◽  
North China Plain ◽  
North China ◽  
Water Saving ◽  
The North ◽  
The North China Plain ◽  
Irrigation Technologies

scholarly journals The water-saving potential of using micro-sprinkling irrigation for winter wheat production on the North China Plain

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1687-1700
Author(s):  
Li-chao ZHAI ◽  
Li-hua LÜ ◽  
Zhi-qiang DONG ◽  
Li-hua ZHANG ◽  
Jing-ting ZHANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
North China Plain ◽  
North China ◽  
Water Saving ◽  
Wheat Production ◽  
The North ◽  
The North China Plain

Sandy Soil Consolidation and Water-Saving Process Design in the North China Plain

2012 ◽  
Vol 599 ◽  
pp. 795-803
Author(s):  
Yan Pei Cheng ◽  
Jian Kang Zhang ◽  
Fa Wang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Sandy Soil ◽  
Process Design ◽  
North China Plain ◽  
North China ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Water Saving ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
The North ◽  
The North China Plain ◽  
Land Consolidation Project

In order to study of the sandy soil use in the North China plain concerning land consolidation and water-saving techniques, the lack of sandy land groundwater resources, groundwater drainage of the land consolidation project due to a lack of resources basis, blind investment and consolidation benefits, also undermine the structure of the groundwater system. This paper took Wangyangxing village in Zaoqiang county, Hengshui City that first carried out, based on the water resource constraints of land consolidation project as example for site evaluation, and then the land consolidation of water-saving technology and the land consolidation process design theory was used. Hengshui City is one of parts of the sandy soil of agricultural land for a pilot study to explore the effectiveness of suitable sandy soil of agricultural land, land consolidation in the North China Plain for the full scientific utilization of water resources to improve the efficiency of the sandy soil land use and the basis.

Assessment of winter wheat water‐saving potential in the groundwater overexploitation district of the North China Plain

2020 ◽  
Vol 112 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulin Jiang ◽  
Xiaohui Wang ◽  
Jinsong Ti ◽  
Zhou Lu ◽  
Xiaogang Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
North China Plain ◽  
North China ◽  
Water Saving ◽  
The North ◽  
The North China Plain ◽  
Groundwater Overexploitation

China: The South–North Water Transfer Project—is it justified?

Water Policy ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Berkoff
Keyword(s):  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
North China Plain ◽  
North China ◽  
Water Transfer ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
The North China Plain ◽  
North Water ◽  
Stressed Region

The South-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP), if fully developed, could divert 40-50 km3/yr from the Yangtse basin to the North China plain, alleviating water scarcity for 300-325M people living in what even then will be a highly water-stressed region. Construction of the next stage, diverting up to 20 km3 at a cost of about $17,000M (including $7000M in ancillary costs), is to start in 2002/3. A recent World Bank study suggests that the project is economically attractive. This conclusion has been disputed by the World Wildlife Fund (now the Worldwide Fund for Nature). This paper concludes that little confidence can be placed in either of these analyses. It therefore seeks to throw light on how the project fits within a broader regional and agricultural development setting. The project is hugely expensive, and would at the margin tend to preserve water in low value agriculture and require the resettlement of upwards of 300,000 people. On the other hand, the pace and scale of socio-economic change in China are without precedent, and adjustment problems on the North China plain are greatly exacerbated by water scarcity. Reallocation of water from irrigation to municipal and industrial uses or to the environment is socially divisive and in some instances physically impracticable. The transfer project would greatly alleviate these difficulties. It is these arguments (which are ultimately political and pragmatic), rather than those based strictly on economic or food security concerns, that make the Government's decision to proceed with the project fully understandable.

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