"Belt and Road"Water Problem in Regionalization and Reflections on Drawing Lessons from China's Water Management Experiences

ZUO Qiting; HAO Lingang; MA Junxia; HAN Chunhui

doi:10.13522/j.cnki.ggps.2017.0648

Abstract：The"Belt and Road"includes many areas and there are many complicated water problems along it. For the successful implementation of initiative,it is necessary to analyze the water problems and learn from Chi-na's experience in water management.Based on the main route and water resources areas of the"Belt and Road"identified by the research team,this paper divided the main water resources areas into East Asia,West Asia,South Asia,Central Asia,Southeast Asia,Eastern Europe,Central Europe,Western Europe,Southern Europe,North Af-rica and East Africa.To begin with,this paper collected the amount of water resources and the percentage of pop-ulation with access to safe drinking-water of AQUASTAT database of FAO,and the evaluation data of flood oc-currence, drought severity, inter-annual and seasonal variability in water supply of World Resources Institute. Then,the water resources problems in each regionalization were analyzed.Next,the main water resources prob-lems were summarized.The main water resources problems include flood,drought,water shortage,water pollu-tion,uneven distribution of water resources and water supply crisis.And then we analyzed the difficulty of solv-ing different water problems.At last,we summarized the China's water experiences,mainly including water-sav-ing society development,water resource sustainable utilization,human-water harmony,strictest water resources management system,interconnected river system network and water ecological civilization,and for different wa-ter resources problems,we given the solution.It is expected to provide a direction and idea for further quantita-tive research water problem along the"Belt and Road".