Water Resource Sustainable Management: An Important Aspect of Sustainable Urbanization in China
With the rapid economic growth, China has been witnessing a dramatic growth of urbanization since 1978, and its urbanization level increased from 17.9％ in 1978 to 45.7％ in 2008. However, Chinas rapid urbanization has resulted in many resource and environmental problems, one of which is water crises including water shortage, water pollution and water wastage. These three problems are impeding the sustainable and healthy progress of urbanization. Therefore, freshwater availability is an element of growing importance in sustainable Chinas urban development. By analyzing the present situations of water resources crises in Chinas urban, the paper proposed the five strategies for the water resource sustainable management. They are using inclining block tariffs to control urban users water demand, using water saving products certification to control industrial products water use; introducing market mechanism to wastewater treatment industry, providing specific foundation to support non-traditional water resource exploration and making policy to plan water use and to conserve urban fresh water resource.
water resource water sustainable management sustainable urbanization, China
ZHENG Fengying ZHANG Xiaokui
Marine College, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, P.R. China, 264209
国际会议
The 1st International Conference on Sustainable Construction & Risk Management(首届可持续建设与风险管理国际会议)
重庆
英文
849-853
2010-06-12（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）