Stockholm International Water Institute » Jiang Liping http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Hai Tide: Tapping Green Water in Northern China http://www.siwi.org/publication/hai-tide-tapping-green-water-in-northern-china/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/hai-tide-tapping-green-water-in-northern-china/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:38:20 +0000 Nora http://www.siwi.org/publication/hai-tide-tapping-green-water-in-northern-china/ 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.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.1 2008.

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