TY  - GEN
AU  - Kinzelbach,Wolfgang
AU  - Wang,Haijing
AU  - Li,Yu
AU  - Wang,Lu
AU  - Li,Ning
TI  - Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability
SN  - 978-981-16-5843-3
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Bern
PB  - Springer Nature
KW  - Hydrology & the hydrosphere
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Environmental monitoring
KW  - Analytical chemistry
KW  - Agricultural science
KW  - Groundwater management
KW  - Groundwater depletion
KW  - Groundwater modelling
KW  - Monitoring of groundwater levels
KW  - Pumping tests for monitoring of pumping rates of wells
KW  - Subsidized land fallowing
KW  - Groundwater game app
KW  - Smart metering of pumping wells
KW  - Smart metering of electricity consumption
KW  - Surface water diversion
KW  - Decision support system
KW  - Open Access
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/51919/1/978-981-16-5843-3.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/74911
ER  -