广东韩江松源河省界界面水质变化及环境管理策略

根据2007、2008年7次调查的实测资料,分析了松源河及多宝水库的水质变化过程,并讨论了影响水质恶化的原因;根据水质变化特点,提出了水质保洁及科学管理的策略,为梅州的绿色崛起、“以人为本”的和谐社会服务.     

认真深入做好前期工作确保三峡工程顺利兴建

三峡工程建设,无论是防洪,发电、航运其工程规模极其巨大,而且工程建设地处我国人口密集、经济相对较发达的长江干流上游最下部河段上;为此,工程建设的前期工作更应较全面深入周密细致,充分考虑方方面面的利害得失,正确地反映工程建设的经济效益。在开发性移民方针下,做好水库淹没损失的合理补偿和移民安置,不留后患。长江上游年年发生洪水造成灾害,工程设计应考虑在水库调洪运行中给上游带来的洪涝灾害淹没损失应得到相应的赔偿。执行《水法)对水资源的有偿使用经济收益的分配是一个有待探讨的问题。     

论溪落渡水电站的战略地位

溪落渡水电站是金沙江上最大的一座巨型电站,装机容量1200~1500万kW,除发电外兼有防洪、拦沙、改善下游航运等综合利用效益。通过对金沙江水电基地在我国经济建设中的地位和作用;溪落渡水电站在金沙江水电基地开发中的地位和作用、在“西电东送(包括南送)”中的地位和作用以及在长江上游水电基地中的地位和作用等论述,希望引起有关领导和决策部门的重视,加快溪落水电站前期工作的进程和促进金沙江水电基地的开发。     

综合评标法在水利工程检测项目招标投标中的应用

本文主要论述综合评标法是水利工程检测项目评标中较为实用的一种方法。本文建立了综合评分法模型,并通过实际案例,介绍其评分过程。     

The Afghan water law: “a legal solution foreign to reality”? 1

In this article the suggested permit and licence systems included in the draft Afghan Water Law of 2008 (superseding those laws of 1981 and 1991) are examined by comparing them with main canal data from two pilot studies within the Kunduz Basin. The comparison highlights the difficulty of making these proposed legal frameworks operative. Overall, it appears that the sections within the law on permits and licences are not implementable within or even useful for the traditional irrigation systems, but mainly play into the hands of the national hydrocracy and please international donors.     

Factors determining informal tanker water markets in Chennai,India

Many developing world cities have seen the emergence of informal markets where private tanker truck operators transport water extracted from peri-urban wells to urban consumers. This study adopted a systems-modelling approach to analyzing the informal tanker market in India. The results indicate that the demand for tanker supply was caused by lack of groundwater availability in private wells as well as unreliable piped supply. The study shows that two groundwater factors are relevant: depth to water and aquifer productivity. Together, these could explain the difference in spatial, temporal and consumer-specific variations in tanker dependence.     

Editorial

Abstract

Defining and measuring sustainability is a major challenge. This article argues these limitations need not stop us from trying to identify and value the possible impacts of what we are doing, or are thinking about doing, over time periods much longer than the lives of our investments, or even of the lives of those of us living today. Sustainability is a relative concept that must be applied in an environment undergoing multiple changes, changes that are occurring over different temporal and spatial scales. We depend on our water resource systems for our survival and welfare. Yet no one expects them to be restored to, or survive in, their most productive pristine states in the face of increasing development pressures for land in their watersheds and for water in their streams, rivers, lakes, and aquifers. A continuing task of water resource planners and managers is to identify the multiple impacts and tradeoffs resulting from what we who are living today may wish to do for ourselves and our immediate children and what we can only guess our yet-to-be-born descendants may wish us to do, or not do, for them in some distant future. This task must involve professionals from other disciplines in a context much broader than just water management. Once these impacts and tradeoffs are identified, it is then up to the political process to make choices when they are in conflict. All of us need to be a part of this decision-making process.     

Integrated Water Resources Management in the Republic of Uzbekistan

Abstract

The Uzbek socio-economic structure is characterized by the transition from a centrally-planned to a market-orientated economy, with a shifting from agricultural production to industrial development. However, the agricultural sector continues to play a significant role in a general economy of the country. The major water sector strategy is to decrease the dependence of agricultural production on climate by introducing advanced irrigation techniques and water saving methods to achieve future sustainable socio-economic development and environmental protection. Water management policy should be flexible enough to adapt to new demands. The regulation of consumption through demand management tools, such as appropriate pricing policies, has recently received greater attention in Uzbekistan. The main thesis of this paper is that allocation of water resources cannot be separated from ecological and economic considerations. The establishment of development objectives and the identification of constraints are also discussed. In the coming years, special attention will need to be paid to the control of water pollution and land salinization, water resources conservation, and acknowledging that actions to increase water productivity are as important as finding additional sources of water.     

National and International Water Law

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The exchange of data and information relating to transboundary water resources is widely accepted as being an appropriate starting point for more comprehensive cooperation. This paper examines under what conditions data and information exchange occur in relation to shared water resources, and hence examines when it can be used as a confidence building measure. An overview of several major international river basins together with more detailed case studies of the Mekong. Rio Grande, and Rhine River basins suggest that factors that promote data and information exchange include the presence of compatible needs, absence of legacies of mistrust, increasing water resources stress, perceptions that cooperation is of mutual benefit, external pressure and funding, comparable levels of institutional capacity, popular and political concern about water resources management, and functional formal or informal cooperative arrangements. Analysis of the situation prevailing between Israel and the Palestinians with regard to shared water resources suggests that data and information exchange does not seem likely in the short term, even though other forms of cooperation have been established with mixed results. This suggests that in some situations, at least, data and information exchange relating to shared water resources may not be useful as a first step in establishing more comprehensive cooperation.     

Evaluating increasing block tariff pricing policies when applied to multiple household connections

This paper develops a model for evaluating the consequences of increasing block tariff pricing policies when multiple households share a connection and applies it to a sample from Kumasi, Ghana. Results show that for any given consumption, a household's average share of total monthly water bill for shared connections can either be higher or lower than its single-household equivalent. Significant differences between the average and single-household equivalent bills were found in these cases, although this difference is under-estimated if the sample is not disaggregated by payment group.