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Water conservancy projects in China: Achievements, challenges and way forward

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Liu, Junguo, Zang, Chuanfu, Tian, Shiying, Liu, Jianguo, Yang, Hong, Jia, Shaofeng, You, Liangzhi, Liu, Bo, Zhang, Miao·2013·Global Environmental Change
DOI 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.002
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China's water policies in the past decades have relied heavily on the construction of massive water conservancy projects in the form of dams and reservoirs, water transfer projects, and irrigation infrastructure. These facilities have brought tremendous economic and social benefits but also posed many adverse impacts on the eco-environment and society. With the intensification of water scarcity, China's future water conservancy development is facing tremendous challenge of supporting the continuous economic development while protecting the water resources and the dependent ecosystems. This paper provides an overview of China's water conservancy development, and illustrates the socioeconomic, environmental and ecological impacts. A narrative of attitude changes of the central government towards water conservancy, as well as key measures since the 1950s is presented. The strategic water resources management plan set by the central government in its Document No. 1 of 2011 is elaborated with focus on the three stringent controlling “redlines” concerning national water use, water use efficiency and water pollution and the huge investments poised to finance their implementation. We emphasize that realizing the goals set in the strategic plan requires paradigm shifts of the water conservancy development towards maximizing economic and natural capitals, prioritizing investment to preserve intact ecosystems and to restore degraded ecosystems, adapting climate change, balancing construction of new water projects and rejuvenation of existing projects, and managing both “blue” (surface/groundwater) and “green” water (soil water).

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Authors
Liu, J., Zang, C., Tian, S., Liu, J., Yang, H., Jia, S., You, L., Liu, B., & Zhang, M.
Venue
Global Environmental Change
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2013-06
Volume
23
Issue
3
Pages
633-643
ISSN
0959-3780 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.002
OpenAlex
W2026602370
Cited by
430
References
2
FWCI
16.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
hybrid
Licence
Funders
  • Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest (201204204)
  • Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2012DFA91530)
  • National Science Foundation
  • Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-09-0222)
  • Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (HJ2010-1)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (91025009, 41161140353)

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