Water sustainability: the prospect of transfer projects in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naseer Ahmed Abbasi ◽  
Xiangzhou Xu
Keyword(s):  
Global Climate ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Qilian Mountains ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Services Research ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Northern Areas ◽  
The World ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
The Qilian Mountains

<p>Affected by global climate change, water shortages and other extreme weather, water scarcity in world is alarming sign. China is suffering from severe water shortage in northern areas due to multiple reasons such as declining of runoff of main rivers to northern areas and serious rainfall shortage. This article provides the evidences regarding the feasibility and their technical, financial, political, socioeconomic, environmental from the aspects of two projects, Tunnel and Tianhe projects. The Tianhe water diversion project is expected to bring 2.5 billion cubic meters of precipitation in the Sanjiangyuan area, 200 million in the Qilian Mountains area and 120 million in the Qaidam area every year. On the other hand, the Tibet-Xinjiang Tunnel, which would be the longest water divert tunnel in the world, plan to divert the water from Tibet to Xinjiang using a 1000-kilometer tunnel. The project is expected to turn Xinjiang into California, which could carry 10 to 15 billion tons of water each year. These two projects are anticipated to solve the problem of water, food and drought in the country. In addition, the integrated telecoupling helps to promote ecosystem services research and governance, identify knowledge gaps, guide research design, and strengthen the interaction between researchers and stakeholders.</p>

Envisaged transfer projects: New technologies in the water sustainability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naseer Ahmed Abbasi ◽  
Xiangzhou Xu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
The World

<p><strong>Abstracts:</strong> Influenced by global climate change, water shortages and other extreme weather, water scarcity in the world is an alarming sign. This article provides evidences regarding the Tunnel and Tianhe project’s feasibility and their technical, financial, political, socioeconomic and environmental aspects. Such as how to utilize the water vapour in the air and to build a 1000 km long tunnel project to fulfill the goal of solving water shortage in China. The projects are promising to solve the problem of water, food and drought in the country. In addition, the telecoupling framework helps to effectively understand and manage ecosystem services, as well as the different challenges associated with them. Such efforts can help find the ways for proper utilization of water resources and means of regulation.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Sustainability; water shortage; transfer project</p>

Perspective of Water Resources in Japan and in the World

1991 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Tamon Ishibashi
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
The World

Recently, problems of water shortage are becoming global in both developed and developing countries. This is due to tremendous population increases and also urbanization and industrialization. In this paper, countermeasures for future water shortages are described.

scholarly journals China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project Empowers Sustainable Water Resources System in the North

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3735 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giri R. Kattel ◽  
Wenxiu Shang ◽  
Zhongjing Wang ◽  
John Langford
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Water Infrastructure ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Water Resources System ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
North Water

Global freshwaters are severely depleted. Provision of improved water infrastructure technologies and innovation can address challenges posed by water shortages to environmental sustainability. China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project has generated extensive debates over sustainability of water resources system in the northern drier region, which faces severe water scarcity hindering ecosystems, agriculture, industries and livelihoods. Some arguments extend the views that large infrastructure projects can have negative implications for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem goods and services. However, this study strengthens the opposite view, as such projects would resolve increasing environmental challenges northern China has been facing over many decades due to severe water shortages. The project empowers connectivity among individuals, community, and organizations that the sustainability of goods and services such as energy, irrigation and water supply are perceived, and livelihoods and the standard of peoples’ living is improved. A resilient, robust and adaptive water infrastructure framework can overcome the challenges of water shortages by meeting a long term social, economic and environmental goals for water resources systems in northern China. Such framework can also identify the thresholds of change and the threats associated with environmental sustainability.

Research on the Feasibility of Water Diversion Project

2014 ◽  
Vol 580-583 ◽  
pp. 1874-1877
Author(s):  
Li Hua Zhang ◽  
Guang Hui Wang ◽  
Xiao Hui Hao
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Actual Condition ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
Engineering Measures ◽  
The One

The research on the feasibility of Feicheng Water Diversion from Dawen River Project is based on a thorough investigation in the actual condition of water resources in Feicheng city. It is found that on the one hand this city has been suffering from water shortage, while on the other hand it has allowed most of the water flowing away in vain from Dawen River, which runs through this area. To resolve this contradiction, this research demonstrates the feasibility of networking of Dawen River and Shangzhuanglu Reservoir through engineering measures to realize the optimal allocation of water resources

scholarly journals Evaluation of five complementary relationship models for estimating actual evapotranspiration during soil freeze-thaw cycles

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 431-449
Author(s):  
Yong Yang ◽  
Rensheng Chen ◽  
Yaoxuan Song ◽  
Chuntan Han ◽  
Zhangwen Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Qilian Mountains ◽  
Actual Evapotranspiration ◽  
Cold Regions ◽  
Complementary Relationship ◽  
Freeze Thaw ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Qilian Mountains ◽  
Energy Processes

Abstract The actual evapotranspiration (ETa) estimated models based on the complementary relationship (CR) theory have been applied in various climatic conditions around the world. However, in cold regions, the evaluation of the adaptability of the CR models was performed through complete freeze-thaw cycles, and the adaptability during various periods of soil freeze-thaw cycles has not been evaluated separately. Daily ETa was measured by lysimeters on alpine grassland in the Qilian Mountains from 2010 to 2017, and the measurements were used to evaluate five CR models during the thawing, thawed, freezing, and frozen periods, respectively. The five models comprised the advection-aridity (AA) model of Brutsaert and Stricker, the GG model proposed by Granger and Gray, Morton's CR areal evapotranspiration (CRAE) model, the Han model, and Brutsaert model. The results show that all five CR models were only able to estimate daily ETa during the thawed period. None of the models could estimate the daily ETa during the thawing, freezing, or frozen periods. The basic assumptions of the CR may not be suitable for non-thawed periods with complex energy processes, and no complementary behavior was shown in the non-thawed periods. The CR models must be applied with caution during freeze-thaw cycles in cold regions.

Simulation of Pollutant Transportation in Yinluan Open Channel under the Effects of Wind

2013 ◽  
Vol 419 ◽  
pp. 842-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun Xue Zhang ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Li Lin Wang ◽  
Chao Wang ◽  
Shu Yi Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Wind Direction ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Open Channel ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
Tianjin City ◽  
Efdc Model ◽  
Large Scale Project

The water diversion project from Luanhe River to Tianjin is a large-scale project eliminating the water shortage of Tianjin city. Because the long water supply open channel along highroads, the traffic emergent incidents bring great potential dangers to the water supply of Tianjin. In this paper, the prediction model of traffic emergent incidents was built and the transportation of pollutants in Yinluan open channel with the effects of wind was simulated by EFDC model. The evolution and affective area of pollutant in Yinluan open channel was obtained. The results showed that the effects of wind on the transportation of pollutant in Yinluan open channel are strong when the wind direction is along the channel.

scholarly journals A multi-objective water trading optimization model for Henan Province's water-receiving area in the Middle Route of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project

Water Policy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 693-707
Author(s):  
M. Dou ◽  
J. Zhang ◽  
G. Li ◽  
P. Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Model ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Henan Province ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
Optimal Scheme ◽  
Multi Objective ◽  
Water Trading ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
North Water

Abstract Water trading is an effective method for solving regional water shortage problems and addressing the uneven spatiotemporal distribution of water resources. Therefore, taking the Middle Route of China's South-to-North Water Diversion Project (MR-SNWDP) as the research object, we present a study on a feasible water trading scheme in the water-receiving area of Henan Province. First, the tradable water of each calculation unit in the water-receiving area was calculated by analyzing the water-saving potential of different industries. Second, a multi-objective optimization model for trading water between different regions was developed, taking the largest social and economic benefits of the water-receiving area as the objective function. Finally, non-dominated sorting genetic algorithms were used to solve this optimization model, and an optimal scheme for water trading was proposed. The simulated results of the optimal scheme indicate that the total water shortage of the water-receiving areas will decrease by 650.69 million m3, and there will be a surplus of 14.98 million m3 of water, and the gross national product will increase by RMB 130.5 billion at a rate of 5.2%. This demonstrates that the water-receiving areas of Henan Province can effectively alleviate local water shortages by trading water without increasing external water supplies.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the factors affecting water-saving attitudes of urban life on the verge of the next century: a case study of the Mediterranean region of Turkey

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Goksel Akpinar ◽  
Mevlut Gul ◽  
R. Figen Ceylan ◽  
Sinem Gulcan
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Region ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Water Saving ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
World Population ◽  
Affecting Factors ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean

Abstract The World Food and Agriculture Organization claims the percentage of the overall world population that will suffer from water scarcity and water stress by 2025 is estimated as 34% and 15%, respectively. Accordingly, it can be estimated that 40% of the 9.4 billion estimated world population will face water shortages by 2050. In this case, the ownership and efficient use of water stand out as common concerns for all communities in the world for today and for the future. In this research, the attitudes of consumers towards water saving were identified and factors that affect these attitudes were analysed within a sample from the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The survey was conducted through a face-to-face survey with 965 households in three Turkish provinces in 2009. SPSS statistical package was used for factor analysis to determine the affecting factors. Variables affecting water-saving decisions were reduced to seven factors via 0.792 KMO value. These seven factors explained 62.18% of the total variation in water-saving consciousness of the target group. Accordingly, it was understood that marketing policies should focus on water crisis awareness, environmental awareness, anxiety about water shortage, residential area characteristics, water pricing, the current awareness level and social willingness on reduction of water use to cope with possible problems.

IMPACT OF THE SOUTH-TO-NORTH WATER DIVERSION PROJECT ON GROUNDWATER RESOURCES: A CASE STUDY IN PINGGU BASIN, BEIJING, CHINA

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 2239-2247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guomin Li ◽  
Haizhen Xu ◽  
Ming Li ◽  
Shouquan Zhang ◽  
Yanhui Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
The South ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
North Water ◽  
Beijing China
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