Introduction to Water Management

Author: Shen Dajun
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book constructs the theoretical system and content of water management. The entire book consists of 17 chapters, theoretically building and practically exploring various aspects of water management from legal, institutional, and economic perspectives. It studies the relationship between water and people, as well as the relationships among people caused by water. Water management is composed of water resource management, water service regulation, and water environmental management. Water resource management includes water resource property rights management, water withdrawal permit management, water resource fee (tax) management, and institutional arrangements for resource management. Water service regulation covers both water supply and wastewater treatment, involving economic regulation aspects such as entry regulation, market structure regulation, and price regulation, as well as social regulation aspects like water service quality regulation. Water environmental management includes public water environmental management, wastewater discharge permit management, and economic measures for water environmental management. The later chapters of the book discuss and propose perspectives on international hot topics in water management. This book is systematic, comprehensive, and innovative, serving as a reference for researchers, educators, managers, and decision-makers in departments such as water conservancy, water resources, water environment, and natural resources.