China Country Water Resources Partnership Strategy (2013-2020)

This report presents the outcome of the World Bank's analytical and advisory work to assess the status of water resources development and the key water issues and challenges facing the country. The Bank has also reviewed its history of cooperation with the Government of China in recent decades, and notes the remarkable achievements China has made in developing the water sector. The report proposes solutions for tackling the enormous challenges facing China in the sector. The central priority is to ensure sustainable utilization and management of water, land and related resources at the national, basin, regional and local levels. Despite relatively poor endowments of land and water by international standards, China's economy has developed extremely rapidly over the last three decades, supporting 21 percent of the world's population with 9 percent of the world's arable land and only 6 percent of the world's water while simultaneously lifting some 400 million people out of poverty. It is noted in the national water resources master plan recently completed by the Ministry of Water Resources (MWR) and the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) that China's water resources are under stress from the combined demands of agriculture, industrialization, urbanization, population increases and improving living standards. The impact is evident in regional falling water tables, inadequate flows to the environment, pollution, and so on.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURAL WATER, AGRICULTURAL WATER USE, AGRICULTURE WATER, ALLOCATION OF WATER, ANNUAL RUNOFF, AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM, AQUIFERS, ARID AREAS, AVAILABILITY OF WATER, AVAILABLE WATER, AVAILABLE WATER RESOURCES, BRACKISH WATER, CAPACITY BUILDING, CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, CIVIL SOCIETY, CLIMATE CHANGE, COASTAL AREAS, COLLECTION OF WATER, COMPETITION FOR WATER, CONSTRUCTION, CONSUMPTIVE USE, CONSUMPTIVE USES, COST RECOVERY, COVERING, CUBIC METERS, DAMS, DEBRIS, DECISION MAKERS, DECISION MAKING, DEMAND FOR WATER, DIKES, DISTRIBUTION OF WATER, DOMESTIC USE, DRAINAGE, DRAINAGE SYSTEM, DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, DRINKING WATER, DRINKING WATER SAFETY, DRINKING WATER SUPPLY, DROUGHT, DRY WEATHER, ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, EROSION CONTROL, EVAPOTRANSPIRATION, FARMERS, FLOOD CONTROL, FLOOD MANAGEMENT, FLOOD PROTECTION, FLOOD RISK, FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT, FLOODING, FLOODS, FOOD SECURITY, FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY, FORESTRY, GLOBAL WATER PARTNERSHIP, GOOD GOVERNANCE, GOVERNANCE OF WATER, GROUNDWATER, GROUNDWATER RESOURCES, GROUNDWATER WITHDRAWALS, HOUSEHOLDS, HUMIDITY, HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE, HYDROPOWER CAPACITY, IRRIGATION, IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT, IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT, IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, LAKE BEDS, LAKES, LAND USE, MANAGEMENT OF WATER, NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES, NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES, NUCLEAR POWER, PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, POLLUTION CONTROL, POWER GENERATION, PRESSURE, PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT, PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS, PROVINCIAL WATER, PUBLIC WATER, QUALITY STANDARDS, RAIN, RAINFALL, RECHARGE, REMOTE SENSING, RENEWABLE WATER RESOURCES, RESERVOIRS, RIVER BASIN, RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT, RIVER BASINS, RIVER MANAGEMENT, RIVERS, RUNOFF, RURAL WATER, RURAL WATER SUPPLY, SAFE DRINKING WATER, SANITATION, SEA, SEA WATER, SEDIMENTS, SEWERAGE SYSTEM, SHALLOW WATER, SMALL CITIES, SMALL DAMS, SMALL TOWN, SMALL TOWNS, SMALL WATERSHED, SOIL EROSION, SPRING, STORAGE CAPACITY, SURFACE WATER, SURFACE WATER RESOURCES, TOWN, TREATMENT PLANTS, USE OF WATER, WASTEWATER, WASTEWATER DISCHARGE, WASTEWATER TREATMENT, WATER ALLOCATION, WATER AUTHORITIES, WATER AVAILABILITY, WATER BODIES, WATER BODY, WATER CONSERVATION, WATER CONSUMPTION, WATER CYCLE, WATER DEMAND, WATER DEVELOPMENT, WATER DISTRIBUTION, WATER DIVERSION, WATER GOVERNANCE, WATER INFRASTRUCTURE, WATER LAW, WATER LOGGING, WATER LOSSES, WATER MANAGEMENT, WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, WATER MARKETING, WATER PARTNERSHIP, WATER POLICY, WATER POLLUTION, WATER POLLUTION CONTROL, WATER PRICING, WATER PROGRAMS, WATER PROJECTS, WATER QUALITY, WATER QUANTITY, WATER RESOURCE, WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, WATER RESOURCES, WATER RESOURCES ALLOCATION, WATER RESOURCES CONSERVATION, WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT, WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, WATER RESOURCES PLANNING, WATER RIGHT TRADING, WATER RIGHTS, WATER SAVINGS, WATER SCARCITY, WATER SECTOR, WATER SECTOR DEVELOPMENT, WATER SECTOR INITIATIVES, WATER SECTOR REFORM, WATER SERVICES, WATER SOURCES, WATER STORAGE, WATER SUPPLY, WATER SUPPLY COMPANY, WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS, WATER SYSTEMS, WATER TABLES, WATER TRANSFER, WATER USE, WATER USER, WATER USER ASSOCIATION, WATER USERS, WATER WITHDRAWAL, WATER ­ CONSUMPTION, WATERS, WATERSHED, WATERSHED MANAGEMENT, WATERWAYS, WETLANDS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/01/19577180/china-country-water-resources-partnership-strategy-2013-2020 https://hdl.handle.net/10986/18741
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