21st Century China and World Water Crisis and Countermeasures

Author: Yang Shuqing
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book proposes new concepts and methods to improve the current state of water environments, addressing the global water crisis faced by humanity—such as flood threats, water scarcity, deteriorating water quality, desertification, and sandstorms. It particularly introduces the idea of building marine reservoirs. The book is divided into 10 chapters, covering topics including: an overview of global water resource development strategies, the potential of new strategies for exploiting global water resources, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, restoring the aquatic environment of the Hai River Basin, the development and management of water resources in the Yellow River Basin and strategies for its governance, flood disasters in the Yangtze River Basin and solutions, drought, flood, and polluted water management in the Huai River Basin, the wealth of islands and coastal areas—the freshwater flowing into the sea, small-scale environmental management of reservoirs, and desertification control. The book is systematic, comprehensive, strategic, and innovative, serving as a reference for planning, management, and decision-making departments, researchers, teaching materials for university and college majors in water conservancy and marine engineering, and also for the general public concerned about "water issues."