Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability

Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought re...

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Main Authors: Kinzelbach, Wolfgang, Wang, Haijing, Li, Yu, Wang, Lu, Li, Ning
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Wang, Lu
Li, Ning
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description Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief. Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves as an example. A management system is set up for a typical county. It contains three components: monitoring, decision support based on modelling, and implementation in the field. Besides all monitoring data, the decision support module contains an irrigation calculator, a box model, and a distributed groundwater model to project the outcomes of different water allocation scenarios. In view of grain security, a solution combines an adaptation of the cropping system with imports of surface water from the South. The Open Access book does not only describe the problem and the path to its solution. It also gives access to nine manuals concerning methods used. They include computer programs and the game Save the Water. The Chinese experience should be of considerable interest to other regions in the world which suffer from over-pumping of aquifers.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-749112025-07-30T11:55:57Z Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability Kinzelbach, Wolfgang Wang, Haijing Li, Yu Wang, Lu Li, Ning Groundwater management Groundwater depletion Groundwater modelling Monitoring of groundwater levels Pumping tests for monitoring of pumping rates of wells Subsidized land fallowing Groundwater game app Smart metering of pumping wells Smart metering of electricity consumption Surface water diversion Decision support system Open Access thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RB Earth sciences::RBK Hydrology and the hydrosphere thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology::TQD Environmental monitoring thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry::PNF Analytical chemistry thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RB Earth sciences::RBK Hydrology and the hydrosphere thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology::TQD Environmental monitoring thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry::PNF Analytical chemistry thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVB Agricultural science Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief. Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves as an example. A management system is set up for a typical county. It contains three components: monitoring, decision support based on modelling, and implementation in the field. Besides all monitoring data, the decision support module contains an irrigation calculator, a box model, and a distributed groundwater model to project the outcomes of different water allocation scenarios. In view of grain security, a solution combines an adaptation of the cropping system with imports of surface water from the South. The Open Access book does not only describe the problem and the path to its solution. It also gives access to nine manuals concerning methods used. They include computer programs and the game Save the Water. The Chinese experience should be of considerable interest to other regions in the world which suffer from over-pumping of aquifers. 2021-12-14T04:02:53Z 2021-12-14T04:02:53Z 2021-12-13T18:55:04Z 2022 book ONIX_20211213_9789811658433_7 OCN: 1285603406 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/51919 9789811658433 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74911 eng Springer Water open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51919/1/978-981-16-5843-3.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51919/1/978-981-16-5843-3.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51919/1/978-981-16-5843-3.pdf Springer Nature Springer Singapore 10.1007/978-981-16-5843-3 10.1007/978-981-16-5843-3 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 4fe02375-ccb9-426b-85c0-833026ed7b22 9789811658433 Springer Singapore 157 Bern [grantnumber unknown] open access
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Groundwater depletion
Groundwater modelling
Monitoring of groundwater levels
Pumping tests for monitoring of pumping rates of wells
Subsidized land fallowing
Groundwater game app
Smart metering of pumping wells
Smart metering of electricity consumption
Surface water diversion
Decision support system
Open Access
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Wang, Haijing
Li, Yu
Wang, Lu
Li, Ning
Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability
title Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability
title_full Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability
title_fullStr Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability
title_full_unstemmed Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability
title_short Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability
title_sort groundwater overexploitation in the north china plain a path to sustainability
topic Groundwater management
Groundwater depletion
Groundwater modelling
Monitoring of groundwater levels
Pumping tests for monitoring of pumping rates of wells
Subsidized land fallowing
Groundwater game app
Smart metering of pumping wells
Smart metering of electricity consumption
Surface water diversion
Decision support system
Open Access
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topic_facet Groundwater management
Groundwater depletion
Groundwater modelling
Monitoring of groundwater levels
Pumping tests for monitoring of pumping rates of wells
Subsidized land fallowing
Groundwater game app
Smart metering of pumping wells
Smart metering of electricity consumption
Surface water diversion
Decision support system
Open Access
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thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability
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thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry::PNF Analytical chemistry
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thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry::PNF Analytical chemistry
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