Staff View: Addressing China’s Water Scarcity

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Addressing China’s Water Scarcity

China's water resources are scarce and unevenly distributed. It has the sixth largest amount of renewable resources in the world, but a per capita availability that is only one-fourth the world average and among the lowest for a major country....

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Main Author:	Xie, Jian
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ACCESS TO SAFE DRINKING WATER AGRICULTURAL WATER AGRICULTURAL WATER USE ALLOCATION SYSTEM CENTRAL GOVERNMENT CLIMATE CHANGE COST OF WATER DECISION MAKING DRINKING WATER ECOSYSTEM EFFICIENT USE OF WATER EFFICIENT WATER USE ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FARMING FLOOD CONTROL FLOODING FLOODS GLOBAL WARMING GROUNDWATER GROUNDWATER DEPLETION HOUSEHOLDS INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER IRRIGATION IRRIGATION SYSTEMS LAKES LOCAL WATER MUNICIPAL SEWAGE MUNICIPAL WATER MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEMS POLLUTION CONTROL PRICE OF WATER PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH PUBLIC PARTICIPATION QUALITY STANDARDS RECYCLING RESERVOIRS RIVER BASIN RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT RIVER BASINS SAFE DRINKING WATER SCARCE WATER SCARCE WATER RESOURCES SCARCITY OF WATER SERVICE PROVIDERS SOIL CONSERVATION SOURCES OF WATER UNDERGROUND WATER URBAN CENTERS USE OF WATER WASTEWATER WASTEWATER DISCHARGE WATER AVAILABILITY WATER BODIES WATER CONSUMPTION WATER CRISIS WATER MANAGEMENT WATER MANAGEMENT POLICY WATER POLLUTION WATER POLLUTION CONTROL WATER PRICING WATER QUALITY WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCE WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT WATER RESOURCES WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT WATER RIGHTS WATER SCARCITY WATER SECTOR WATER SERVICE WATER SERVICE PROVIDERS WATER SERVICES WATER SHORTAGES WATER SOURCES WATER SYSTEM WATER USAGE WATER USES WATER WITHDRAWAL WATERSHED WETLANDS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/05/10626476/addressing-chinas-water-scarcity http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11722