China is not short of water -- twelve years of research and practice in resource systems engineering management

Author: Wu Jisong
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book first proposes that through water-saving construction, China can achieve water supply and demand balance by 2015, or in other words, achieve a state of water sufficiency. The basis for this argument is that the water consumption per 10,000 yuan of China's GDP is nearly four times the world average. If it is reduced to half, China can achieve water supply and demand balance while ensuring food security and maintaining high-speed economic growth. Since university, the author has been involved in water-related work: starting as a "Four Cleanups" campaign worker in rural areas around Beijing to grow rice, then working as a tractor operator in a Xinjiang farm after graduation for labor practice. Over the past 40 years, he has engaged with water in 33 provinces and municipalities across the country through production. Since becoming one of China's first visiting scholars after the country's reform and opening-up, he has studied water in more than 60 countries across five continents for 25 years. As a high-technology and environment advisor at UNESCO for 12 years, and as the Director of the Water Resources Department at the Ministry of Water Resources and the Executive Deputy Director of the National Water Conservation Office for 6 years, where he formulated plans, proposed policies, and managed national water resources work, he has gradually established the basic framework of resource systems engineering management. From the perspective of resource systems engineering management, the book re-examines the issues of abundant water, scarce water, dirty water, and turbid water, and proposes some new viewpoints, policies, and solutions. These experiences, insights, and achievements are fully reflected in the book.