Hai Tide: Tapping Green Water in Northern China

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5215
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Bastiaanssen, W.G.M.; Bingfang, Wu; Olson, Douglas C.; Liping, Jiang
Journal:	Stockholm Water Front
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Page(s):	12-13
Date:	2008
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5215
Sector:	Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	East Asia Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	river basins water resources pollution water management scarcity
Abstract:	"The Hai Basin in China is currently experiencing serious physical water shortages and pollution. Ninety percent of the surface water resources are used; most branches of the river do not reach the sea. The availability of water resources is only 285 m3 per head, while groundwater abstraction, pumped at 26 billion m3/year , exceeds recharge by 7.2 billion m3 /yr. Beyond that, surface water is overused by 2.4 billion m3/yr. This overexploitation, totalling 9.6 billion m3/yr, has resulted in serious environmental degradation."

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