THE ESTABLISHMENT OF WATER MARKETS IN WATER IMPORTED AREAS OF THE EAST-ROUTE OF SOUTH-TO-NORTH WATER TRANSFER PROJECT
It has been tested in practice that markets are more flexible and effective way to allocate scarcity resources, therefore, tradable water rights and effective water markets are needed to be introduced to solve the scarcity of water resources. South-to-North Water Transfer Project is the main engineering measure to relieve the serious water scarcity in Northern China, this paper, however, tries to use markets as another path to increase water efficient use in water imported areas of the East-Route. The main difficulties in establishing water markets in this area have been analyzed, such as the fuzzy defining of water right, the ineffective water management system, and the willingness of water users to buy or sell and the blank of the tradable water rights system; the initial water rights, the tradable water, the facilities, the framework, the transaction rules, the procedure and the supervision to establish water markets in water imported area has been presented. In sum, water resources has been transferred possibly from rich to scare by the means of interbasin water transfer project, water markets institutions allocate these water more efficiently through the path of permitting water users cashing out the water they saved and then encouraging the movement of water from lower valued uses to higher valued uses.
tradable water rights water markets water transfer considerations framework trading ast-Route South-to-North Water Transfer Project
Yongxiao Cao Guohua Fang Fengcun Yu
State Key Laboratory of Hydrology -Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanj College of Water conservancy and Hydro-power Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
国际会议
第16届亚太地区国际水利学大会暨第3届水工水力学国际研讨会(16th IAHR-APD Congress and 3rd Symoposium of IAHR-ISHS)
南京
英文
1509-1514
2008-10-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）