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YELLOW RIVER, THE

Water And Life

By: Tetsuya Kusuda (Editor)

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Hardcover | 29 October 2009

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The Yellow River basin, located in the semi-arid and arid climate zones in northern China, is confronted with serious problems of water deficit as well as water pollution. Due to increasing population, rising living standards, increasing pressure of expanding irrigation areas and developing industries in the basin, efficient water resource allocation has become a pressing issue. On the surface this problem appears domestic, but in reality it is of international proportions - it may impact other countries through trade. As such, development in the basin is severely curtailed.In order to understand and provide a way of thinking about the issues pertaining to the current state of water resources in the basin, The Yellow River systematically explains the methods of modeling and the mechanism of water circulation on each element, while introducing several new-age technologies for water-saving. This book also presents the cutting-edge research results of a five-year project that improved the sustainability in utilizing and controlling water in the Yellow River basin.

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Preface	p. v
List of Contributors	p. xi
List of Images	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Profile of the Yellow River Basin	p. 5
Characteristics of the Nature	p. 5
Morphology	p. 5
Geology	p. 7
Climate	p. 8
Human Activities	p. 10
Population distribution	p. 10
Land use	p. 12
Urban and rural lives	p. 14
Agriculture	p. 16
Industry	p. 16
Production and economics	p. 17
Socio-Economic States	p. 17
Strategic situation of the Yellow River in history	p. 17
Socio-economic conditions in the basin	p. 19
Policy of development in the basin	p. 20
Administration in the basin	p. 21
Social problems on water in the basin	p. 21
References	p. 23
Water Resources and Use	p. 25
Water Resources Availability	p. 25
Precipitation/snow melting	p. 26
Potential evaporation	p. 29
Runoff and river flow	p. 30
Water storage	p. 35
Groundwater resources	p. 37
Water-Use	p. 39
Forest	p. 39
Irrigation	p. 46
Industrial use	p. 63
Consumption of water in urban areas	p. 66
References	p. 69
Water Quality and River Ecology	p. 73
Water Quality in the Yellow River Basin	p. 73
Water Quality in the Wei River Basin	p. 73
Sources of pollutants	p. 77
Pollutant unit loads and loading rates	p. 79
Water Quality in the Wei River	p. 84
Observational results	p. 84
Simulation with an Integrated Model on Water Quality and Quantity	p. 87
Integrated model of water quantity and quality	p. 87
Computational results	p. 94
Toward future	p. 96
River Environment in Xi'an	p. 97
Urban areas	p. 98
Effects of reservoirs	p. 102
References	p. 103
Sediment Yield and Transport in the Middle Yellow River Basin	p. 165
Sediment Yield	p. 105
Fluvial Geomorphology	p. 107
Analytical framework	p. 107
Analysis of geographic information and satellite images	p. 107
Comparison of the eight tributaries in the middle reach of the Yellow River	p. 108
Field Measurements of Flood Flows	p. 109
Rainfall-runoff relationships	p. 109
Sediment particle size in flood flows and on riverbeds	p. 114
Relationship between discharge and sediment transport rate	p. 115
Flow resistance	p. 117
Formula for Flow Resistance and Sediment Transport	p. 118
Comparison among Theoretically Calculated, Experimental and Observed Results	p. 120
Analysis of Flood and Sediment Runoff	p. 122
Rainfall-runoff analysis	p. 122
Riverbed variation analysis	p. 122
References	p. 124
Modeling and Simulation on Water in the Yellow River	p. 127
Hydrological Model and Simulation	p. 127
Introduction	p. 127
Data	p. 128
Description of the hydrological model	p. 131
Model calibration and validation	p. 136
Analysis of Water Resources in the Last Half Century	p. 138
Spatial and seasonal distributions of water resources for a long-term mean	p. 138
Decadal variation of water resources	p. 142
Inter-annual variability of water resources	p. 144
Reason for the drying-up in the main river along the lower reach over the last 30 years	p. 145
References	p. 148
Projection of Water Supply and Demand with Economy and Food Supply in the Yellow River Basin	p. 151
Analysis of Current Water-Use Using the Water Resource Supply-Demand Model	p. 153
Overview of the model	p. 153
Structural changes in water resource supply and demand (1997-2000)	p. 155
Impacts of Economic Growth and Urbanization on Water Resource Supply-Demand Balance	p. 159
Regional economic growth scenarios	p. 159
Water supply-demand gaps in the Yellow River basin	p. 162
Analysis by watershed	p. 163
Impacts of Changes in Food Demand on Water Resources	p. 169
Toward the Future	p. 170
References	p. 172
Index	p. 173
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